Obama's plans for food policy?

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  1. callie
    Sun, 11/09/2008 - 14:09

    Ideas for the shanty walls:
    . Images of food from around the world
    • Maps of where food comes from
    • Statistics: food on average travels over 1500 miles to get to your plate
    • Map out some common foods that we eat and everything that goes into getting it to our plate (packaging, transport, labor, fossil fuels, health, freshness, etc)
    • What resources do we have within 100 miles of Mpls/St Paul? Could we do it?
    • Map of farms in the US (showing recent dramatic loss of farms) (also show percentage of organic/small farms vs. huge monocrop mega-farms)

    Main Activity ideas:
    • Have resources about where different kinds of food come from (miles from Twin Cities), have them make a map connecting these places to their home- where all of the ingredients come from and how far
    •??

    Small book activities:??

    Survey questions:??

    Supplemental (take with you) info:
    • Lists of restaurants in the metro area that buy locally
    • Lists of farmers markets, grocery stores that buy local products
    • How to buy locally year round as much as possible?
    • Recipes (from around the world? Using local/seasonal food?)
    • Instructions to map where your breakfast/lunch/dinner comes from
    • Read the labels at the grocery store! Where does the food you usually buy come from?

    Some web resources I found:
    www.foodroutes.org
    www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?crops
    blog.runforoneplanet.com/?p=241
    geography.middlebury.edu/applications/Food_Mapping/
    www.sustainabletable.org/issues/buylocal/index_pf.html
    www.locavores.com/
    100milediet.org/get-started/map