UCS and sustainable food systems …


Demand a healthy, affordable, sustainable food system.

Nearly 20,000 people have already signed our petition urging President Obama to establish a National Food Policy that will ensure healthy, sustainably grown food for all. It’s not too late to add your name! Sign today.

 Read this issue on the UCS website.
www.ucsusa.org/publications/december_2014.html

Why we need a national food policy.

 A twitter conversation with Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, and Ricardo Salvador.

 Watch food policy advocates and experts discuss ways to shape healthy food policy at the local level.

 

Ricardo Salvador, Ph.D.
Director,
Food & Environment ProgramFollow
Ricardo’s blog >>
“I read your call for an executive order to create a national food policy. I heartily agree that our food system is broken. But how would a national food policy be any different—or better—than the backward set of policies we have now?”—O. Day, Oakland, CA.As things stand today, the federal government already addresses a range of interconnected agricultural issues—diet-related disease, environmental degradation, farm subsidies, food safety, pesticides, immigration and farm labor, workplace safety and health—with a patchwork of regulations and standards across at least eight agencies. Not only is this approach uncoordinated, all too often agencies work at cross-purposes. READ MORE