A Letter to the Food Justice Movement
by Tim Huang, ’14 Dear Movement, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but we live in a world that reinforces the idea of scarcity, the idea that “I should fear sharing with others because there are not...
View ArticleFrom Farm to Fork: Cooking something up
by Jenny Rempel, ’12 The following is an excerpt from Jenny’s weekly column in The Stanford Daily: On the gas stove whose pilot lights never work, oversize pots bubble furiously under mismatched lids....
View ArticleFarms, Culture, and Choice
by Maria Deloso, ’15 Farming directly determines what foods are available to us, which, in turn affects our own cultures and social norms. Looking at different ethnic foods, we can see certain trends....
View ArticleIs Cow’s Milk Healthy?
by Maria Deloso, ’15 So, according to the USDA, we’re supposed to be drinking three cups of milk a day. Yes, milk with every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Such a rate of dairy consumption is...
View ArticleBusyness Ethics
by Rachel Kelley, ’12 When you can’t fit one more thing into your schedule, somehow you find yourself reading articles your friends posted on Facebook – articles like this one, “The Busy Trap.” Several...
View ArticlePlant-Based Diets 101: Reasons to skip the animal based products
by Maria Deloso, ’15 On my flight to the Philippines this summer, the flight attendant asked why I wasn’t eating. Not knowing the easiest way to explain my diet in 5 seconds, I blurted out, “I’m a...
View ArticleLearn About Factory Farming with Katie Cantrell
by Maria Deloso, ’15 This Tuesday, October 16, Katie Cantrell from the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition will be coming to give a presentation on factory farming at Arrillaga Family Dining Commons,...
View ArticleYES on Prop 37
by Maria Deloso, ’15 Proposition 37, which would mandate the labeling of genetically modified (GMO) food, is a topic that I had been avoiding for a while now. Most of the soy, corn, and other foods we...
View ArticleMeat Your Farmers
by Maria Deloso, ’15 Appetite for Change and the Stanford Food Project would like to invite you to Meat Your Farmers at 7pm in Annenberg Auditorium this Thursday, Februrary 7th. The event will consist...
View ArticleSexual Politics of Meat: Race, Gender and Food
by Rohisha Adke, ’15 How does what we eat relate to gender issues that persist today? What does it mean for women to be turned into “meat,” as in the Carl’s Jr. advertisement? How do both women and...
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