Jill Richardson is the creator of La Vida Locavore and is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It. She also is a contributing blogger for Sustainable Food, which is a part of Change.org.
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Bill and Nicolette Hahn Niman proposed an interesting suggestion for the First Family on the Atlantic’s On The Farm blog: “a flock of egg-laying hens for the White House grounds.” Now the Huffington Post is polling readers on whether it’s a bird-brain idea or would it add another feather in the First Family’s cap. For [...]

Check out Chipotle Founder Steve Ells’ write-up in yesterdays Huffington Post. Says Ells, “Many might think that a restaurant chain like ours would not care about this issue. After all, most restaurant companies focus largely on assuring a high-volume food supply, lower production costs, and increasing profits. From an ethical, economic, and public health perspective, [...]

A great article in this morning’s Washington Post profiles Dave Murphy, the founder of Food Democracy Now, and emphasizes the need for strong advocates of food system reform who are from the Midwest. The importance of having advocates who aren’t coastal and who have worked the land (or are related to those who have) echoes [...]

In a letter to Congress, the president of the American Farm Bureau said that a bill to ban the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics, introduced last week by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), would hurt the health of livestock and compromise food safety.
A Reuters News Agency report quoted the letter from Bob Stallman, who told Congress that [...]

A new study has found that high intakes of red or processed meat may increase the risk of mortality. The research, just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, examined more than a half-million middle-aged and elderly Americans and found those who consumed four ounces of red meat a day were more than 30 percent [...]

Aaron French’s commentary yesterday on the Civil Eat’s blog raises this issue of how prepared the sustainable food movement is to take its seat at the table in Washington. An important question given the receptivity the current administration has shown of late. It seems some more organizing is necessary. Case-in-point: a statement from Obama, as [...]

The media aren’t the only ones paying attention to calls for a sustainable, healthy food system. Last Friday, Michael Pollan was invited to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to vision with them about how their work can support a more healthy, sustainable food system. Planning his visit encouraged cross-Center collaboration (CDC has [...]

Environmentalists and Foodies alike couldn’t contain their giddiness when they heard the First Lady broke ground on the White House Kitchen Garden today. Check out more pictures from the White House Blog. The Washington Post even has video as Mrs. Obama was joined by about 2 dozen elementary school students.

I was privileged to spend the past few days at the Inaugural Meeting of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), a well-organized group of stakeholders from around the country ranging from farmers to policy wonks (who are sometimes one in the same) working in coalition on important issues. In addition to learning an incredible amount [...]