April 2012
15 posts
Molly, Part Two
Here is the second part of my series.
Molly woke up to the blaring of car horns outside of her second story window. New York City was never a quiet place, but it seemed to be especially loud in the early hours of the day, as if everyone knew that Molly were trying to sleep. Of course now that she was wide awake, there was little chance of going back to bed. She had only been able to get to sleep...
Emma, Part One
Because I am a writing student, I thought the best way to express my thoughts on certain food issues would be to write a few short stories. What follows is part one of my two-part series addressing food and the role it can play in a girl’s life.
In the sun-drenched morning of a suburban summer, Emma Boyd woke up to the sound of her mother’s furious arguing with their cleaning lady. Texas was...
How You Can Help
While art is a powerful source of inspiration and change, there is always more that can be done to reach full food awareness. Many organizations have begun to address the real food issues of our time, including starvation, poverty, and suspicious ingredients. Here are just a few:
Let’s Move is an organization started by First Lady Michelle Obama in an attempt to end a very real and...
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Food & Hunger: The Facts
“There are 925 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Among the key causes of hunger are natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural...
Welcome!
I’m Amy, a 20-something college student living in Chicago. As part of my final for my class Media, Politics, & Intervention, I was asked to create a project that addressed a social, political, or human rights issue. I chose food, not only because it is such an integral facet of my life, but also because it is grandly complex. Food possesses the power to change countries, to alter lives,...
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