Jul 12, 2022 | Current Events, Featured, Food and Farming, Policy & Public Health, Take Action
The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021 (GCSA), originally introduced in 2020 and revived by the 117th Congress, was passed by the Senate in June 2021. The bill aims to make it easier for “farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners” to enter voluntary environmental credit markets, namely carbon markets.
May 31, 2022 | Current Events, Policy & Public Health, Take Action
The content in this post was written in partnership and support from the following organizations: North American Marine Alliance, National Family Farm Coalition, Wallace Center, Rural Coalition, and Farm Action. Intro to White House Listening Sessions...
May 3, 2022 | Current Events, Press Release, Slow Food Events
ÖBROOKLYN, May 3 — Dozens of speakers from around the world will present perspectives on food security, seed preservation and sovereignty, community engagement, and more at Slow Food USA’s second annual Slow Seed Summit. This virtual gathering from May 13-15 will...
Mar 29, 2022 | Biodiversity, Current Events, Food and Farming, Labeling, Policy & Public Health, Slow Meat, Take Action
Slow Food USA’s work to advance good, clean and fair food for all means that we support localizing American foodways to ease the burden of food travel and production on the environment and our food producers and workers. Right now, if you buy packaged meat and poultry...
Nov 15, 2021 | AR21 6, Current Events, Food and Farming, Food Justice, News, Policy & Public Health, Uncategorized
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, our food system has become a much more nationally prominent subject. Be it the destructive environmental impacts of factory farming, the unjust...
Nov 5, 2021 | Current Events, Food Justice, Slow Food Events
by Lindsay Anne Herring, Food Studies Master of Arts Candidate, Chatham University and Food Justice Intern, Contemporary Craft Anna Metcalfe, Pop-up Pollinator Picnic, (detail) Installation, dimensions vary; .5”x6”x7” (one plate), Porcelain, glaze, transfer prints,...
