Last Thursday we had a screening of “Fed Up” followed by a conversation led by Dr. Noel Chavez, Associate Professor Emerita of the Community Health Sciences division at UIC, and Lubna Saleh from the Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion. We talked about how sugar was just one piece of the puzzle that is the mess and broken U.S. Food System that we have in place. Interested in changing that? We suggest checking out the Real Food Challenge, their primary campaign is to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and junk food and towards local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources—what they call “real food”—by 2020.
Fed Up: It’s Time to Get Real
Modified on August 17, 2018