Winter/Spring Appearances – 2013
January 30 – Albuquerque, NM – KiMo Theater – Panel for screening of “Soul Food Junkies.” February 6 – Evansville, Indiana – Keynote address and panel discussion for local food forum. For more more...
View ArticleMark Winne and Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Join Forces
Food Policy Advocate Mark Winne and The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future to Collaborate on Food System Policy Work #AOLMsgPart_1_5ac6725f-3498-4132-b52d-083ac3ac1a6a td{color: black;} Mark...
View ArticleWarriors, Workers, and Weavers: Choreographing the Food Policy Dance
I think it was the University of Wisconsin sociology professor Steve Stevenson who first coined the phrase “warriors, workers, and weavers” to characterize the three most common flavors that change...
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Food Needs Labels
The fight is underway in the Connecticut legislature to require labels on food items containing genetically engineered food. The bill has been reported out favorably by large margins in two committees....
View ArticleFood Democracy on the March
The most recent issue of the Harvard Health Policy Review has an article by me titled “Food Democracy on the March.” For those of you who have heard me speak or attended one of my food policy council...
View ArticleUK Keen on Food Policy Councils
Imagine having nearly $2 million to spend over 3 years on the development and improvement of food policy councils in the United States. Mix in some capacity building assistance, a template for bringing...
View ArticleWe’re (They’re) Number One!
Ever since I abandoned my fair Connecticut for the browner pastures of New Mexico, I put more than miles between me and my former state. At times I found myself making fun of such inconsequential...
View ArticleSummer and Fall Appearances – 2013
June 19 – 2:00 to 3:00 eastern time – CSPI Food Day Webinar on Food Policy Councils with Mark Winne. To register go to http://www.foodday.org/webinars June 25 – Utica, New York – Food Policy Council...
View ArticleFood Coops: A Faith Renewed
“Faith is a stray pet that will somehow find you again.” David Hernandez, deceased poet. For the better part of 40 years, my fondest memory of retail food coops was the day they closed. Even though my...
View ArticleFood Rebels of Utica
I’ve always wondered what it takes to turn around a really down and out place. By which I mean the type of city where the only visible signs of prosperity are a well-lit McDonalds and half-full car...
View ArticleTime to Re-think Food Stamps
At the risk of being labeled a Tea Party toady or right-leaning deviationist, I have to ask if the severing of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) from...
View ArticleSan Bernardino: A Hub of Food Activity
There’s something humbling about a 100-year old orange tree. Ancient, deeply rooted, with a gnarly trunk as thick as an old washing machine tub, its leafy crown is elegantly coiffed like that that of a...
View Article“Non-Nonsense Guide to World Food” Makes Perfect Sense
Before he was a food activist and manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council, Wayne Roberts was a union leader in Ontario and a Greenpeace organizer in northern Canada. While I can’t imagine what those...
View ArticleRepublicans to Park Goers: “Take a hike!” But Not in the National Parks
Place: Rocky Mountain National Park – Alpine Visitors Center Elevation: 11,796 feet Date: September 2, 2013 “The National Park Service budget is down seven percent due to sequestration. We had to...
View ArticleThe Fundraising Letter I’d Like to Receive
Since I speak and consult with many groups around the country, I often find myself placed on their donor solicitation lists. Many of the subsequent fundraising letters I receive are from food banks...
View ArticleLet Us Now Thank Famous Foodies
Rather than offering up paeans to those fabulous Brussels sprouts I grew this year, I want to devote my harvest message to three people I’m grateful for: Bob Lewis, Kate Fitzgerald, and Hugh Joseph. To...
View ArticleHitting Florida’s Food Policy Beaches
Leaving home at 4:00 a.m. to catch an early flight, the car’s thermometer read 8 degrees above zero. After a treacherous drive down an icy I-25 to Albuquerque, I boarded my plane and was airborne...
View ArticleFamine
The accounts we read of famine never fail to rip our hearts to shreds. Mass human suffering taken to a slow, excruciating end, and the cries of hungry children with no hope of being fed sink us into an...
View ArticleWinne Divests Monsanto Holdings…Company’s Stock Tanks
At least that was the fantasy headline I hoped would appear on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But the one I feared would startle me awake one morning was, “Anti-GMO Activist Outed:...
View ArticleAppearances – Winter and Spring 2014
2014 February 7 & 8: Springfield, Missouri – Missouri Organic Association Annual Conference – Workshop on Feb. 7 on Food Policy; Conference keynote on Feb. 8. For more information contact Angela...
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