This article was passed along to me and I felt that I needed to respond in some way:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec0104mcgovernjan04,0,1762931.story
I think McGovern & Matz bring up good points here. We cannot completely stop farming on a commercial scale at this time, and any change away from industrial agriculture has to be incremental.
Having said that, I do disagree with the unstated assumption in this article that U.S. industrial agriculture's goal is to feed the world. Agribusiness is just that: a business. When food is viewed as a commodity to be sold and purchased (not as a basic human right) it will go to those who can afford it. We can increase production 100-fold in this country, and the basic fact remains that only those who can afford it will have access to food, those that cannot afford it will go hungry.
The article quotes Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution," a revolution that significantly increased food production. But the number of hungry throughout the world remained either static or (especially more recently) has greatly increased since this "revolution." Yes, population has increased as well and I am unsure of the actual rates of growth comparatively, but I think we just need to question the assumption that more technology equals progress. The green revolution has brought increased crop yields but the number of hungry increases every day. The profits are not shared through equal distribution of food; rather, profits are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Monsanto, for example, dominates the GM seed industry. And while GM seeds have brought increased yields (in some, but not all instances) there has been no decrease in the total number of people without food worldwide. Monsanto has seen record profits (http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/01/05/daily36.html) for a while now, as a global food crisis continues to exist. At the same time, GM crops may actually be hurting U.S. agriculture significantly (http://www.organicconsumers.org/patent/exposed091702.cfm), and also has brought a dramatic rise in farmer suicides throughout the developing world, environmental damage due to increased pesticide and herbicide use, and unknown health effects that have yet to be tested on humans.
Another argument that is always used by industrial ag folks is that the U.S. is the largest donor of food aid, something that can only be done with our chemical and technological inputs. U.S. food aid is first and foremost a foreign policy tool & a way to help powerful interests at home. Legally, U.S. food aid must be purchased from U.S. sources and it must be shipped on U.S. ships. This often causes food aid to arrive anywhere between a few weeks and 6 months after it is first requested. U.S. packagers and shippers are often more expensive than foreign companies, causing up to 75% of all money spent on food aid to go to U.S. corporations, leaving only $0.25 to the dollar to actually buy food. Another problem is that once the food finally gets there, it is often sold by aid non-profits (to those who can afford it, not necessarily the hungry!) to raise money for their other programs.
In terms of aid undermining local farming, I recommend looking into the recent Niger famine. Basically, they had a surplus of food in the country that was stockpiled. People couldn't afford it so it just sat there. U.S. aid was shipped from the U.S. It took months to get there because U.S. food aid 1) has to be bought from U.S. sources 2) has to be shipped on U.S. ships. By the time the food got there, the famine was coming to an end. Farmers were able to grow again. But there was U.S. food aid sitting around that needed to be used, so they dumped it on the market, prices fell again, and farmers and the people suffered because of it.
Celia Dugger of the New York Times has really good coverage of U.S. food aid policy if you are interested in reading more. Below are a few articles that helped me understand the system a lot better:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/washington/03food.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/world/africa/02malawi.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/world/29food.html
What I think the authors do not see if that, for many, creating a more sustainable, localized food system is about more than just crop yields and productivity. (Even so, organically grown crops have shown to be as productive if not more than industrially grown crops. The reasons for this are many and I would be happy to expand on them later on). Rebuilding our food system is about redefining how we see food. It is taking food as a commodity and turning it back into a basic human right - what connects us to the land, the environment, our communities, our culture, and our own nutrition. Business as usual may increase production, but at what cost? If the food is not going to feed the hungry but only helps to increase profits of the Monsanto's of the world, why must Americans support these corporations through our tax dollars in the form of billions of dollars in subsidies? If industrial agriculture continues to destroy our environment while being one of the MAJOR contributors to greenhouse gases and the climate crisis, is it worth it? (Climate change is going to hurt the people that are most in need throughout the world most, further damaging the land that is already being exploited for cash-crops to be exported to the West). We must ask, What is the bottom line? Is it corporate profit? Or is it human well-being?
Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Eating less, eating local and eating better could slash U.S. energy use, CU study finds
This article was passed along to me. This is very important!
Eating less, eating local and eating better could slash U.S. energy use, CU study finds
How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if
Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy
and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new
Cornell study.
'We could reduce the fossil energy used in the U.S. food system by
about 50 percent with relatively simple changes in how we produce,
process, package, transport and consume our food,' said David
Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture in the College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Pimentel's analysis, co-authored with five former Cornell
undergraduates who were in Pimentel's Environmental Policy course in
2006, is published in the academic journal Human Ecology.
Pimentel says that about 19 percent of the total fossil fuel used in
this country goes into the food system -- about the same amount we use
to fuel cars. His analysis details how changes in the food system
could reduce energy.
For example, the researchers recommend:
* Eat less and cut down on junk food: To produce the typical
American diet requires the equivalent of about 500 gallons of oil
per year per person, says the study. Americans, on average,
consume about 50 percent more calories than recommended by the
federal government for optimal health and get one-third of their
calories from junk food. Eating less and cutting down on junk food
would use significantly less energy, considering all the
processing, packaging and transportation costs saved.
* Eat less meat and dairy: We use 45 million tons of plant protein
to produce 7.5 million tons of animal protein per year, according
to Pimentel. Switching to a vegetarian diet, he says, would
require one-third less fossil fuel than producing the current
animal-based American diet.
* Eat more locally grown food: Food travels an average of 1,500
miles before it is eaten. 'This requires 1.4 times the energy than
the energy in the food,' Pimentel said. A head of iceberg lettuce,
for example, which is 95 percent water, provides 110 calories and
few nutrients. Irrigating the lettuce in California takes 750
calories of fossil energy and shipping it to New York another
4,000 calories of energy per head, according to the analysis.
Locally grown cabbage, on the other hand, requires only 400
calories to produce and offers far more nutrients, not to mention
it can be stored all winter long.
* Use more traditional farming methods: Pimentel's team also shows
how using methods to reduce soil erosion, irrigation and pesticide
use, through such things as crop rotation, manure and cover crops,
could cut the total energy now used in crop production.
The study's co-authors are Sean Williamson, Courtney Alexander, Omar
Gonzalez-Pagan, Caitlin Kontak and Steven Mulkey, all Cornell Class of
2007.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug08/Energy.Food.html
Eating less, eating local and eating better could slash U.S. energy use, CU study finds
How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if
Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy
and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new
Cornell study.
'We could reduce the fossil energy used in the U.S. food system by
about 50 percent with relatively simple changes in how we produce,
process, package, transport and consume our food,' said David
Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and agriculture in the College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Pimentel's analysis, co-authored with five former Cornell
undergraduates who were in Pimentel's Environmental Policy course in
2006, is published in the academic journal Human Ecology.
Pimentel says that about 19 percent of the total fossil fuel used in
this country goes into the food system -- about the same amount we use
to fuel cars. His analysis details how changes in the food system
could reduce energy.
For example, the researchers recommend:
* Eat less and cut down on junk food: To produce the typical
American diet requires the equivalent of about 500 gallons of oil
per year per person, says the study. Americans, on average,
consume about 50 percent more calories than recommended by the
federal government for optimal health and get one-third of their
calories from junk food. Eating less and cutting down on junk food
would use significantly less energy, considering all the
processing, packaging and transportation costs saved.
* Eat less meat and dairy: We use 45 million tons of plant protein
to produce 7.5 million tons of animal protein per year, according
to Pimentel. Switching to a vegetarian diet, he says, would
require one-third less fossil fuel than producing the current
animal-based American diet.
* Eat more locally grown food: Food travels an average of 1,500
miles before it is eaten. 'This requires 1.4 times the energy than
the energy in the food,' Pimentel said. A head of iceberg lettuce,
for example, which is 95 percent water, provides 110 calories and
few nutrients. Irrigating the lettuce in California takes 750
calories of fossil energy and shipping it to New York another
4,000 calories of energy per head, according to the analysis.
Locally grown cabbage, on the other hand, requires only 400
calories to produce and offers far more nutrients, not to mention
it can be stored all winter long.
* Use more traditional farming methods: Pimentel's team also shows
how using methods to reduce soil erosion, irrigation and pesticide
use, through such things as crop rotation, manure and cover crops,
could cut the total energy now used in crop production.
The study's co-authors are Sean Williamson, Courtney Alexander, Omar
Gonzalez-Pagan, Caitlin Kontak and Steven Mulkey, all Cornell Class of
2007.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Vilsack to be Secretary of Agriculture
A few thoughts on the Secretary of Agriculture pick...
Vilsack is a huge proponent of corn ethanol, which has serious environmental and economic problems. Some studies show corn ethanol requires more energy to create per calorie that it actually releases. The plus heavy government subsidies plus, corn ethanol is one reason many believe food prices rose so dramatically in recent times...(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/opinion/19wed1.html?hp)
Vilsack is also very close to the BioTech industry and supports GMOs (genetically modified organisms) http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/113477/it's_vilsack:_obama_picks_pro-gmo_and_pro-biofuels_ag_secretary/
Here are a few more reasons from the Organic Consumer's Association:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm
While Vilsack is decent on land conservation and some environmental issues, overall I'm pretty disappointed with Obama's choice. As I mentioned on a recent post, there were other very real alternatives. A group from the Sustainable Ag movement created this petition which lists six highly qualified alternatives, and they received over 54,000 signatures in only a few weeks: http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/. I guess we will see how he does, but my initial reaction was something like "change?! what change is that?!" Hopefully he won't be more of the same pro-agribusiness as we've for decades, although his record doesn't seem to give signs he is going to be any real change we can believe in.
Here is an online petition by the Organic Consumer's Association opposing Vilsack's nomination:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783
Thoughts?
Vilsack is a huge proponent of corn ethanol, which has serious environmental and economic problems. Some studies show corn ethanol requires more energy to create per calorie that it actually releases. The plus heavy government subsidies plus, corn ethanol is one reason many believe food prices rose so dramatically in recent times...(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/opinion/19wed1.html?hp)
Vilsack is also very close to the BioTech industry and supports GMOs (genetically modified organisms) http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/113477/it's_vilsack:_obama_picks_pro-gmo_and_pro-biofuels_ag_secretary/
Here are a few more reasons from the Organic Consumer's Association:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15573.cfm
While Vilsack is decent on land conservation and some environmental issues, overall I'm pretty disappointed with Obama's choice. As I mentioned on a recent post, there were other very real alternatives. A group from the Sustainable Ag movement created this petition which lists six highly qualified alternatives, and they received over 54,000 signatures in only a few weeks: http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/. I guess we will see how he does, but my initial reaction was something like "change?! what change is that?!" Hopefully he won't be more of the same pro-agribusiness as we've for decades, although his record doesn't seem to give signs he is going to be any real change we can believe in.
Here is an online petition by the Organic Consumer's Association opposing Vilsack's nomination:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783
Thoughts?
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Seed & the Sprout
The Seed:
My interest in food and hunger issues has grown over the years from a mere interest to a lifestyle. Food has not always played a central role in my life; to the contrary, I was the pickiest child imaginable while growing up. I refused to eat half of the meals my parent’s made and so ended up eating lucky charms for dinner more often than I would like to admit. I didn’t even eat vegetables until I entered college and that was because the lady in the salad line forced them upon me! It is amazing to look back over the past two years and see how my relationship to food has changed so drastically and how that relationship has transformed me personally. People often laugh when they find out that I am a vegetarian who didn’t eat vegetables up until three years ago, and that my first mushroom wasn’t until a year and a half ago!
So I decided to start a blog. While I can only hope my family and friends read it once and a while, the main purpose is for me to have a place to think and talk about food, share my successes and failures in the kitchen, and to try and piece together my many thoughts on food, agriculture, the environment, hunger, and sustainability. The product will hopefully be something semi-coherent and something that will continue to grow and change as I grow and change.
Hungry Sprout will be a site where I talk about everything related to food. I will talk about adventures from the oven, recipes I’ve found, ice cream I have churned, bread I’ve baked, vegetables I’ve grown, and my attempts to try and give back to the community around me when I can. I realize this sounds very ad-hoc. There are cooking blogs, baking blogs, and social progress blogs. To me, cooking, sustainable agriculture, and fighting hunger must go hand-in-hand. If we are to build a sustainable food system, it must be rooted in an agricultural system that is healthy for the earth, our bodies, our communities, and the world around us.
I am no expert on any of these issues. My experience in the kitchen and on the farm is limited and far from professional. But food is my life and I love sharing with my friends and family. I hope these little posts will add a new dimension to my relationship with food and friends. If people do end up reading for some reason, please please please post and share experiences, recipes, etc! I promise to try them out!
WARNING: THIS FIRST POST IS TERRIBLY LONG, BUT I FELT I MUST WRITE EVERYTHING. ALL OTHER POSTS FROM HERE ON IN WILL BE SHORT AND TO THE POINT…I HOPE.
My interest in food and hunger issues began in the winter of 2006/Spring of 2007. That December I traveled in India for two weeks with a study tour from school. That was my first experience with poverty on such a large scale and I was unsure how to deal with it in any healthy and productive way. Every morning my group would walk out of our hotel and women begging for money and food would surround us. They could not speak English, but their body language was impossible to misinterpret. These women would take their right hand to their mouth as if to eat food, but they clearly hadn’t eaten in days. Most of these women had small children in their arms that were visibly malnourished, every one of their bones protruding through their skin. One friend on the trip told me of how one of these women tried selling her child to him in exchange for money to purchase food. A tour guide explained how many of the beggars actually drugged their children to make them look even more ill in hopes that it would help them to get more money from tourists. I had no way of processing this reality and found myself trying to shut it out of my mind and turning a cold shoulder.
It is not that I didn’t care (I was brought to tears numerous times a day), but I felt paralyzed. I didn’t know how I could possibly help these people who were so desperate to survive that they were willing to sell their child. Our group leaders explained how we shouldn’t give them money since that would just cause more and more people to follow us around and that giving money or food might perpetuate their poverty, that giving money to an organization when we returned home would better help the community in the long run. This thought helped some, but I still could not get over the terrible feeling I felt every time I saw someone starving to death because they couldn’t afford the plethora of fruit and vegetables that were being sold right down the street in a market.
I returned from India with only two weeks before I left to study abroad through the Semester at Sea program. I had no time to process anything I saw and tried to shove it in the back of my mind. Semester at Sea took me around the world in 100 days, eleven ports in nine different countries. For a detailed account of my semester and my trip in India, you can go to the travel blog I kept, which is linked to on the right of the page under “Food for Thought,” entitled the Tyranny of Distance.
While on the ship, I took the most influential class of my life, entitled “Food & Society,” with Professor Simon Nicholson from American University. The class went over many aspects of food, from the history of agriculture, industrial agriculture, sustainable agriculture, the future of food, and world hunger issues. It was this class that helped me to realize the power of food. It is over these few months that the connection between my passions, the environment & human rights became evident. I realized how food is one of the strongest relationships humans have with the environment, their body, their family, their community, and every living human being.
My experiences in port seeing hunger in a world of plenty in every single country strengthened my interest in food and hunger issues. From favelas in Brazil, townships in South Africa, a Dalit village in India, and on the streets of Beijing, everywhere I went I saw hunger and I could not escape it. And then I would step back onto my cruise ship and sit down to an all-you-can-eat buffet dinner where waiters brought drinks and dessert. The dissonance I felt was overwhelming and ever-present…
The Sprout:
When I returned back to the States I knew that I was changed beyond belief. For the first time, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, what I had to do with my life. I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to build a sustainable agricultural system and helping to provide those less fortunate with healthy, delicious food.
For the next eight months, I worked part-time on an organic farm while at school. I learned more practical knowledge during my time on the farm than my four years at college. I focused the rest of my non-academic energy on the environmental club at school, helping to bring food issues into our work. I spent the entire year writing my senior thesis entitled “America’s Failing Food Aid System & the Need for Reform.” (If you would like to read it, I would be more than happy to send it along, although I must warn you that it is long…longer than this first blog post).
I am currently living in DC and working for Food & Water Watch on their food team. The main project I am working on is related to labeling laws for rBGH, an artifical growth hormone in milk that has unknown and potentially dangerous effects on humans. I just received a volunteer position through Operation Frontline, a joint project of the Capital Area Food Bank and Share Our Strength. I will be a volunteer chef at a local farmer’s market (Ward 8 Farmers Market in SE), teaching people in the neighborhood how to use local, fresh produce in a cheap and delicious manner. That starts next weekend and I will be sure to update about that when it happens. I am nervous but incredibly excited, since it seems like the perfect opportunity for me, bringing together all of my passions and interests in a really fun way.
Starting in September, I will be a Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center for a year. For six months, starting in September, I will be living in Tucson, Arizona working with the Community Food Bank. Then I will return to Washington, DC for six months to work on hunger policy through a governmental or non-governmental organization.
On top of all of that, I find time to cook constantly. I make ice cream every week and try making bread every week or so (I just made my first sourdough starter…more on that to come). I talk about food non-stop to my friends (thankfully most of them are just as obsessed over food as I am!)
So that is who I am and why I am here. That is why I am always talking about and working with food and what motivates me to get up every morning. If anyone read this far down, I applaud you. I will name an ice cream flavor after you or something in return! I feel as if I am always on a journey, learning new things about food, trying new flavors, and continually fighting industrial agriculture. I hope the Hungry Sprout will help me to make sense of this journey and will be something I can look back on for years to come.If people do read, I urge to always share your foodie thoughts, recipes, pictures, and experiences! Thank you and enjoy!
My interest in food and hunger issues has grown over the years from a mere interest to a lifestyle. Food has not always played a central role in my life; to the contrary, I was the pickiest child imaginable while growing up. I refused to eat half of the meals my parent’s made and so ended up eating lucky charms for dinner more often than I would like to admit. I didn’t even eat vegetables until I entered college and that was because the lady in the salad line forced them upon me! It is amazing to look back over the past two years and see how my relationship to food has changed so drastically and how that relationship has transformed me personally. People often laugh when they find out that I am a vegetarian who didn’t eat vegetables up until three years ago, and that my first mushroom wasn’t until a year and a half ago!
So I decided to start a blog. While I can only hope my family and friends read it once and a while, the main purpose is for me to have a place to think and talk about food, share my successes and failures in the kitchen, and to try and piece together my many thoughts on food, agriculture, the environment, hunger, and sustainability. The product will hopefully be something semi-coherent and something that will continue to grow and change as I grow and change.
Hungry Sprout will be a site where I talk about everything related to food. I will talk about adventures from the oven, recipes I’ve found, ice cream I have churned, bread I’ve baked, vegetables I’ve grown, and my attempts to try and give back to the community around me when I can. I realize this sounds very ad-hoc. There are cooking blogs, baking blogs, and social progress blogs. To me, cooking, sustainable agriculture, and fighting hunger must go hand-in-hand. If we are to build a sustainable food system, it must be rooted in an agricultural system that is healthy for the earth, our bodies, our communities, and the world around us.
I am no expert on any of these issues. My experience in the kitchen and on the farm is limited and far from professional. But food is my life and I love sharing with my friends and family. I hope these little posts will add a new dimension to my relationship with food and friends. If people do end up reading for some reason, please please please post and share experiences, recipes, etc! I promise to try them out!
WARNING: THIS FIRST POST IS TERRIBLY LONG, BUT I FELT I MUST WRITE EVERYTHING. ALL OTHER POSTS FROM HERE ON IN WILL BE SHORT AND TO THE POINT…I HOPE.
My interest in food and hunger issues began in the winter of 2006/Spring of 2007. That December I traveled in India for two weeks with a study tour from school. That was my first experience with poverty on such a large scale and I was unsure how to deal with it in any healthy and productive way. Every morning my group would walk out of our hotel and women begging for money and food would surround us. They could not speak English, but their body language was impossible to misinterpret. These women would take their right hand to their mouth as if to eat food, but they clearly hadn’t eaten in days. Most of these women had small children in their arms that were visibly malnourished, every one of their bones protruding through their skin. One friend on the trip told me of how one of these women tried selling her child to him in exchange for money to purchase food. A tour guide explained how many of the beggars actually drugged their children to make them look even more ill in hopes that it would help them to get more money from tourists. I had no way of processing this reality and found myself trying to shut it out of my mind and turning a cold shoulder.
It is not that I didn’t care (I was brought to tears numerous times a day), but I felt paralyzed. I didn’t know how I could possibly help these people who were so desperate to survive that they were willing to sell their child. Our group leaders explained how we shouldn’t give them money since that would just cause more and more people to follow us around and that giving money or food might perpetuate their poverty, that giving money to an organization when we returned home would better help the community in the long run. This thought helped some, but I still could not get over the terrible feeling I felt every time I saw someone starving to death because they couldn’t afford the plethora of fruit and vegetables that were being sold right down the street in a market.
I returned from India with only two weeks before I left to study abroad through the Semester at Sea program. I had no time to process anything I saw and tried to shove it in the back of my mind. Semester at Sea took me around the world in 100 days, eleven ports in nine different countries. For a detailed account of my semester and my trip in India, you can go to the travel blog I kept, which is linked to on the right of the page under “Food for Thought,” entitled the Tyranny of Distance.
While on the ship, I took the most influential class of my life, entitled “Food & Society,” with Professor Simon Nicholson from American University. The class went over many aspects of food, from the history of agriculture, industrial agriculture, sustainable agriculture, the future of food, and world hunger issues. It was this class that helped me to realize the power of food. It is over these few months that the connection between my passions, the environment & human rights became evident. I realized how food is one of the strongest relationships humans have with the environment, their body, their family, their community, and every living human being.
My experiences in port seeing hunger in a world of plenty in every single country strengthened my interest in food and hunger issues. From favelas in Brazil, townships in South Africa, a Dalit village in India, and on the streets of Beijing, everywhere I went I saw hunger and I could not escape it. And then I would step back onto my cruise ship and sit down to an all-you-can-eat buffet dinner where waiters brought drinks and dessert. The dissonance I felt was overwhelming and ever-present…
The Sprout:
When I returned back to the States I knew that I was changed beyond belief. For the first time, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, what I had to do with my life. I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to build a sustainable agricultural system and helping to provide those less fortunate with healthy, delicious food.
For the next eight months, I worked part-time on an organic farm while at school. I learned more practical knowledge during my time on the farm than my four years at college. I focused the rest of my non-academic energy on the environmental club at school, helping to bring food issues into our work. I spent the entire year writing my senior thesis entitled “America’s Failing Food Aid System & the Need for Reform.” (If you would like to read it, I would be more than happy to send it along, although I must warn you that it is long…longer than this first blog post).
I am currently living in DC and working for Food & Water Watch on their food team. The main project I am working on is related to labeling laws for rBGH, an artifical growth hormone in milk that has unknown and potentially dangerous effects on humans. I just received a volunteer position through Operation Frontline, a joint project of the Capital Area Food Bank and Share Our Strength. I will be a volunteer chef at a local farmer’s market (Ward 8 Farmers Market in SE), teaching people in the neighborhood how to use local, fresh produce in a cheap and delicious manner. That starts next weekend and I will be sure to update about that when it happens. I am nervous but incredibly excited, since it seems like the perfect opportunity for me, bringing together all of my passions and interests in a really fun way.
Starting in September, I will be a Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center for a year. For six months, starting in September, I will be living in Tucson, Arizona working with the Community Food Bank. Then I will return to Washington, DC for six months to work on hunger policy through a governmental or non-governmental organization.
On top of all of that, I find time to cook constantly. I make ice cream every week and try making bread every week or so (I just made my first sourdough starter…more on that to come). I talk about food non-stop to my friends (thankfully most of them are just as obsessed over food as I am!)
So that is who I am and why I am here. That is why I am always talking about and working with food and what motivates me to get up every morning. If anyone read this far down, I applaud you. I will name an ice cream flavor after you or something in return! I feel as if I am always on a journey, learning new things about food, trying new flavors, and continually fighting industrial agriculture. I hope the Hungry Sprout will help me to make sense of this journey and will be something I can look back on for years to come.If people do read, I urge to always share your foodie thoughts, recipes, pictures, and experiences! Thank you and enjoy!
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