Chutney Reader Inaugural Edition - December 2002 Plain text format * Wayne Roberts Goes on a Welfare Diet-- And Eats his Words * The Mandate of His Life: Lula Targets Zero Hunger * Free Lunch for High School Students * Booming Organic Movement Navel-Gazes at Victoria Conference * Achieving World Domination through the Media * ... And Through Effective Advocacy * More about the Chutney Reader: Who we are, subscribe/unsubscribe, etc. Welcome to the first edition of Chutney Reader, a spicy mix of food news, analysis and tips for all you underpaid, overworked staff and volunteers in community-based food programs-- as well as all of you unaffiliated folks who are just interested in food issues from soup to nuts. We'll be reporting from the food security front line: the latest trends, innovations, program models in nutrition, agriculture and food justice. We might even throw in a recipe or two. We intend the Chutney Reader to act as resource that will provoke and inspire you to take creative action to build a food system that truly nourishes people and communities. Please help us out and let us know if you want to receive this as html or plain text.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you're having troubles reading this, or if something's buggy - we're still working it out.
Chutney Reader Inaugural Edition - December 2002 * Wayne Roberts Goes on a Welfare Diet-- And Eats his Words * The Mandate of His Life: Lula Targets Zero Hunger * Free Lunch for High School Students * Booming Organic Movement Navel-Gazes at Victoria Conference * Achieving World Domination through the Media * ... And Through Effective Advocacy * More about the Chutney Reader: Who we are, subscribe/unsubscribe, etc. Welcome to the first edition of Chutney Reader, a spicy mix of food news, analysis and tips for all you underpaid, overworked staff and volunteers in community-based food programs-- as well as all of you unaffiliated folks who are just interested in food issues from soup to nuts. We'll be reporting from the food security front line: the latest trends, innovations, program models in nutrition, agriculture and food justice. We might even throw in a recipe or two. We intend the Chutney Reader to act as resource that will provoke and inspire you to take creative action to build a food system that truly nourishes people and communities. For those of you who have difficulty reading html, we're attaching an rtf version as well - please help us out and let us know ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you're still having troubles reading this, or if something's buggy - we're still working it out. If you're forwarding to a list, the rtf will probably work better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wayne Roberts Goes on a Welfare Diet-- And Eats his Words "When I went on a welfare diet last week, I didn¹t realize just how quickly I would have to swallow my pride. At the request of Daily Bread Food Bank, about 20 politicians, journalists and policy wonks agreed to try eating on the same budget as people on social assistance. Having preached ³voluntary simplicity² for years, I figured our family of three could make do with a weekly food allowance of $49.95, the amount of a welfare cheque for three that Daily Bread said would be left after paying $690 for rent, $18 for TTC tickets, $6.60 for a basic phone, and $10.45 for laundry, personal (soap, toothpaste) and household (cleaners, toilet paper) goods...." Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/welfare.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Mandate of His Life: Lula Targets Zero Hunger ³If every Brazilian can have three meals a day when my mandate expires, I will have carried out the mandate of my life.² President-elect Luiz Ignacio "Lula" da Silva has pledged to eliminate hunger in Brazil, using a multidimensional, pragmatic approach that aims for long-term structural change to the country's food security, as well as short-term solutions. The obstacles are huge: Brazil is beset by IMF structural adjusters, massive poverty, debt, inflation and jumpy investors-- not to mention a hostile superpower to the north who has nerve-wrackingly called the government part of a new Latin American "axis of evil." So can Lula do it? Well, at least he's trying. Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/lula.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Lunch for High School Students Most student nutrition programs are based in elementary schools. But we all know high school students have mouths on them too. Obesity and eating disorders are growing problems in our society, yet fries and coke seem to be the best we can offer in high school cafeterias. The Contact Alternative School's popular breakfast and lunch program demonstrates how vital practical food supports can be for youth-- especially those marginalized by poverty and other issues. Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/school.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Booming Organic Movement Navel-Gazes at Victoria Conference The organic food sector: a growing movement or growth industry? Organic food sales continue to grow at a rate of 15-20% per year, but as the corporate food players start to jump into the game long-term organic advocates, who believe in a holistic philosophy of agriculture, worry that key principles are being compromised. Wayne Roberts reports from the IFOAM conference. Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/organic conference.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieving World Domination through the Media Feel like you should be running the world, but media seem determined to ignore your great ideas and worthy programs? Need some publicity but the thought of approaching journalists makes you sweat? You need a pep talk and some practical tips. Kathryn Scharf talks to senior journalist Laurie Monsebraaten of the Toronto Star about her do's and don'ts for megalomaniac community groups. Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/media.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ... And Through Effective Advocacy If you want to know the way to the heart of a politician, who better to ask than the politician herself? Toronto Councillor Pam McConnell (albeit a soft-hearted specimen) has many years experience of community groups approaching her for support for their programs and issues, and shares some sound tips for would-be community lobbyists. Full story: http://www.foodshare.net/chutney/advocacy.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just who is this"we": The Chutney Reader is a bi-monthly co-production of FoodShare Toronto and the Toronto Food Policy Council, edited by Kathryn Scharf (soon to be on maternity leave, so thereafter by Jennifer Reynolds). 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