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Attention Shoppers: Fair Food for Low-Income Communities

Jun 19, 2011 @ 10:04 AM by FFN with [1] comments
Green Carts in NYC

My book, Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All (PublicAffairs), examines our current food system in the United States and how it has failed to provide enough quality food, particularly for low-income, urban communities. This has in turn contributed to the increase in diet-related health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. I wrote the book to help people who care about our food shift from concerned consumers to engaged citizens.

TEDxWindyCity: Mari Gallagher -- Food Deserts

Nov 9, 2010 @ 12:00 AM by FFN with [0] comments
Mari Gallagher

TEDxwindyCity -- Mari Gallagher -- Food Deserts

Gallagher is one of the few people who has attempted to measure food deserts and their impacts – see her new information about Chicago and Detroit on this TED video.

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