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by Danielle Nierenberg on July 10, 2009
Since he took office a short six months ago, President Obama has galvanized the food community-from buzz about the White House garden to the Obama foodscape blog, Obamafoodorama.com. And now he has reinvigorated the global discussion on hunger with a few simple words.
by Danielle Nierenberg on July 1, 2009 Three news stories on global food production caught our eye this past week.
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 19, 2009
According to new projections from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), there are now more than 1.02 billion people in the world who are hungry, more than ever before. In other words, one sixth of humanity is going hungry every day.
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 15, 2009
What if all of us who write about or work on hunger and food security issues, thought of ourselves as criminal investigators, rather than advocates?
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 5, 2009 Last night I spent the last two hours talking to a group of mostly female Mexican environmentalists and animal advocates. They're all members of Associaciones Protectoras de Animales de Mexico (APASDEM). In one of the member's apartments-located conveniently above an organic market-we talked about the state of farming and livestock for food production in Mexico.
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 4, 2009 I forgot that things move a little slower in Latin America and best laid plans don't always work out. It looks like I won't be visiting Granjas Carroll, the factory farm in Vera Cruz, a state on the Eastern Coast of Mexico, where H1N1 is believed to have originated. I'm bummed, but also to be honest, somewhat relieved.
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 4, 2009 I was honored to be asked by Deputy (their preferred term for Representative or Congressperson) Diego Cobo Terrazas, a Green Party (Partido Verde) member, to speak to members of the Congreso de Mexico about how factory farming can help facilitate the spread of disease.
by Danielle Nierenberg on June 3, 2009
I flew into a hazy, hot Mexico City yesterday afternoon. From my hotel room window I can see how the pollution hangs over this metropolitan area of roughly some 20 million people. My new friend Oscar, an environmental educator who works with the Green Party, told me that it takes him two hours by public transportation to get to work each morning because of the traffic-the source of that haze. But I'm not here to talk about air pollution. I was invited by a member of the Mexican Congress to come and help raise awareness among lawmakers of how our food and farming systems can impact public health.
by Danielle Nierenberg on May 4, 2009 Can I get swine flu from eating hot dogs or other pork products?
by Danielle Nierenberg on April 29, 2009
As I read about swine flu over the weekend, I was again disappointed by the media's coverage of zoonoses (diseases spread by animals to humans), something I've written about extensively in State of the World 2005 and Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry. While Andrew Revkin of The New York Times did mention in his blog the potential role of industrial livestock agriculture in the spread of zoonoses, like swine flu, most reporters are choosing to focus their attention on small farmers raising pigs in rural Mexico. Most articles have said nothing about the increasing size and intensity of pork production in that country-about half of the pigs raised in the country live on factory farms, with some located very close to cities.
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