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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/87711682@N00/3893851377/in/photolist-6W61mz-6Wa3VE-6XjUPu-75ts6c-76TiRo-7hN36t-7oMp72-7oRfkb-7xpjYR-7S9QQp-8ee22y-8ee1gY-8eaH5K-8eaJ3k-ayaNio-9LkdS7-9JGRF2-fwpjbS-d3F1wS-fwa3tV-7ZS2fB-9bwt8h-8ojrLB-9LhquD-9LhqLk-7AYABJ-b2Y41D-cYjRKy-8xR8ZF-8xJd6H-bmffr2-7RZgmo-8tPnfQ-d9JzAZ-csfcPw-csfxBL-9NSxCk-bTUbED-bQFJPK-csfyiL-9N2Wcj-9MZcda-9MZegK-7Qk16Q-d4WQD9-8gRTup-8gVaju-8QcoVG-8Q9jsg-8Q9hLM-7ZVbVf\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-73252\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/3893851377_efd2cb8b1a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cascade hops before they're harvested. Photo: Matt & Nicole Cummings/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cascade hops before they're harvested. Photo: Matt & Nicole Cummings/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To make beer, you need hops. To get hops, most breweries buy from farmers. But, a few actually grow the hops themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bisonbrew.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bison Brewery\u003c/a>, based in Berkeley, joined that club this year with some unique urban hops that were grown in community gardens and front yards around Oakland. The beer made from the local hops, called Oakland's Hop Harvest Ale, will be featured at a festival fundraiser this Saturday, Nov. 9, raising money for \u003ca href=\"http://www.victorygardenfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the Victory Garden Foundation\u003c/a>. The foundation provided one of the places the hops were grown at \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesvictorygarden.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the People's Victory Garden\u003c/a>, at 52nd and Telegraph Ave. It's also a nonprofit organization that educates people about gardening and grows food in community gardens to give to pantries and individuals in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing local hops seems to be an inevitable next step in the evolving local food and urban homesteading movement but brewery-grade hops-growing is not widespread yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not very common, but I think we're going to see more of it,\" said Mark Cabrera of locally-grown hops. Cabrera is Bison's Sales Manager and an Oakland resident. Most notably, both \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierranevada.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra Nevada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://avbc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson Valley Brewing Company\u003c/a> grow some of their own hops on site, which they make specialty beers from, while purchasing the rest of their hops from growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as far as Cabrera knows there aren't any other large breweries that have grown hops right in the middle of cities like Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hops take up a lot of real estate,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73250\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"The seedlings started off small when Cabrera planted them, smaller than a beer bottle. Photo: Mark Cabrera.\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73250\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seedlings started off small when Cabrera planted them, smaller than a beer bottle. Photo: Mark Cabrera.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea started when the manager of the community garden at Lake Merritt approached Cabrera last fall and asked if Bison Brewery was interested in growing in an open plot at Lake Merritt. The garden waived the fee for the brewery. Bison's head brewer did research on the best hops plant for Oakland. They settled on the Cascade Hops, a variety that does well in less warm weather, and Cabrera got to work planting earlier this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, him and his son planted in the Lake Merritt community garden, but they had rhizomes left over. Rhizomes, seedlings that look like sticks, come in one-size large boxes and \"we had about ten times as much as would fit,\" said Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, right next to his spot in the community garden was another empty spot. He asked about it and found out the spot had just been promised to The Victory Garden Foundation. He reached out to Victory Lee, the founder of the organization, and she offered up space not at Lake Merritt but at the People's Victory Garden, where the festival will take place. That used up some more of the seedlings, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ended up planting all over,\" said Cabrera -- his own house, two home-brewing friends' houses, \u003ca href=\"http://beer-revolution.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Revolution\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oldedepot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Olde Depot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The little seedlings grew, turning into vines over the summer. At Cabrera's house, they wrapped up the lattice-work and onto his 25-foot roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to harvest the flowers, though, Cabrera didn't expect much. \"Maybe one keg,\" he said. Growing your own hops can be a notoriously time-consuming process. It typically takes two to three years for the hops to really take root. After harvesting, you trim the vine down to a few feet, let it hibernate over the winter, and it blooms again in the spring bigger and better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-e1383351015947.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-e1383351015947-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cabrera poses next to the vines that grew nearly 40-feet-high this summer. Photo: Mark Cabrera\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73251\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cabrera poses next to the vines that grew nearly 40-feet-high this summer. Photo: Mark Cabrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera was pleasantly surprised, though, when they ended up with 30 pounds of hops, which turned into 40 kegs of Oakland Hops Harvest -- a West Coast-style pale ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That special beer is or will be in the coming weeks available at Olde Depot, \u003ca href=\"http://berkeley.saturncafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jupiterbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewparkway.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Parkway Theater\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://benandnicks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben & Nick's\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cmonoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth \u003c/a>and other bars in Oakland and Berkeley. Or, you can drink it for a good cause at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.victorygardenfoundation.org/hopsnharvesttheshow.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hops n' Harvest Festival\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.victorygardenfoundation.org/hopsnharvest.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The festival\u003c/a>, from 1 to 5 p.m. this Saturday at the People's Victory Garden at Telegraph Center, will have classes, workshops, dancing, music, food and, of course, beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, Bison intends to harvest the hops again -- and, hopefully, get a bigger bounty. It'll also be looking to do similar urban hops growing in other regions like Santa Rosa and Sacramento. And, the brewery plans to reach out to homebrewers, many of whom wanted to participate or grown their own. In fact, the Hops n' Harvest festival will include a homebrewing demonstration with the Oakland hops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had no idea it was going to be this much fun,\" said Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The garden waived the fee for the brewery. Bison's head brewer did research on the best hops plant for Oakland. They settled on the Cascade Hops, a variety that does well in less warm weather, and Cabrera got to work planting earlier this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, him and his son planted in the Lake Merritt community garden, but they had rhizomes left over. Rhizomes, seedlings that look like sticks, come in one-size large boxes and \"we had about ten times as much as would fit,\" said Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, right next to his spot in the community garden was another empty spot. He asked about it and found out the spot had just been promised to The Victory Garden Foundation. He reached out to Victory Lee, the founder of the organization, and she offered up space not at Lake Merritt but at the People's Victory Garden, where the festival will take place. That used up some more of the seedlings, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ended up planting all over,\" said Cabrera -- his own house, two home-brewing friends' houses, \u003ca href=\"http://beer-revolution.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Revolution\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oldedepot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Olde Depot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The little seedlings grew, turning into vines over the summer. At Cabrera's house, they wrapped up the lattice-work and onto his 25-foot roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time to harvest the flowers, though, Cabrera didn't expect much. \"Maybe one keg,\" he said. Growing your own hops can be a notoriously time-consuming process. It typically takes two to three years for the hops to really take root. After harvesting, you trim the vine down to a few feet, let it hibernate over the winter, and it blooms again in the spring bigger and better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73251\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-e1383351015947.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/11/photo-e1383351015947-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cabrera poses next to the vines that grew nearly 40-feet-high this summer. Photo: Mark Cabrera\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73251\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cabrera poses next to the vines that grew nearly 40-feet-high this summer. Photo: Mark Cabrera\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera was pleasantly surprised, though, when they ended up with 30 pounds of hops, which turned into 40 kegs of Oakland Hops Harvest -- a West Coast-style pale ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That special beer is or will be in the coming weeks available at Olde Depot, \u003ca href=\"http://berkeley.saturncafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jupiterbeer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewparkway.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Parkway Theater\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://benandnicks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben & Nick's\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cmonoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth \u003c/a>and other bars in Oakland and Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/food-waste640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72054\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/food-waste640.jpg\" alt=\"Food Shift has launched ads educating people about how much of the pie is being thrown away. Photo: Food Shift\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food Shift has launched ads educating people about how much of the pie is being thrown away. Photo: Food Shift\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The next time you decide to toss out that apple that you never got around to eating or the yogurt past its expiration date think about how much of your food goes into the garbage. Is it 40%?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how much food that's produced in the U.S. gets tossed out every year. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a> that's $165 billion worth of uneaten and wasted food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't matter how sustainable, organic, local your food is if you're throwing away 40%,\" said Dana Frasz, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://foodshift.net/\">Food Shift\u003c/a>. All that wasted food means a lot of wasted resources -- water, land, fuel -- producing the food and transporting it, just so it can be thrown out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering nearly 15% of households in the U.S. are food insecure -- meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming from -- all that wasted food seems like it ought to go to all those hungry people. That's what Frasz thought when she started a volunteer food recovery program while still in college. The program worked like most food waste recovery programs -- volunteers drive around and collect unused food about to be thrown out from restaurants and cafeterias and deliver it to food banks. In the Bay Area, there are dozens of food recovery organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Frasz had another idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The food recovery space is deeply flawed,\" she said. \"We want to create a food recovery sector\" -- like recycling, which runs off its own revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Food Shift is hoping to do, but it's not quite there yet. Right now, the organization has a number of programs to recover unused food that otherwise would go in the trash. They operate a pilot program with two schools in East Oakland where extra cafeteria food -- unopened milks and uneaten apples, for example -- are collected and then given back out to families at the school who need the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also work with restaurants to have them offer smaller portions, so less food is thrown away off of plates. Once food is on someone's plate it's nearly impossible to re-use or donate. They've launched an education campaign too to \"try to shift the culture,\" said Frasz, and educate people and get them to \u003ca href=\"http://foodshift.net/\" target=\"_blank\">sign a pledge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 693px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/foodwaste2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/foodwaste2.jpg\" alt=\"Educating people about food waste is one of the most important steps in recovering the wasted food. Photo: Food Shift\" width=\"693\" height=\"633\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educating people about food waste is one of the most important steps in recovering the wasted food. Photo: Food Shift\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last piece of their puzzle is a program with \u003ca href=\"http://www.andronicos.com/\">Andronico's\u003c/a>. The grocery store pays them to pick up extra, unused food every day. The store, then, is able to pay less in disposal and dumping fees to get rid of the food. With that money, Food Shift hires people to drive trucks to pick up the food and deliver it to \u003ca href=\"http://www.svdpusa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent de Paul's\u003c/a>, which runs a number of poverty alleviation programs including free dining halls, and to other organizations that runs food banks and provide meals. As an added bonus, Food Shift hires people who have been clients at St. Vincent's, giving them money to buy their own food and closing the hunger circle. It's a win-win -- and it's a first step in creating a green economy around food recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of volunteer organizations around the Bay Area are also picking up excess food and delivering it to food shelters. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodrunners.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Runners\u003c/a> in San Francisco picked up 10 tons of wasted food/week. This year, said \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/01/food-runners-urban-gardens-on-food-wine-this-week/\">Mary Risley\u003c/a>, the founder of Food Runners, they're picking up 15 tons/week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the food comes from grocery stores like \u003ca href=\"http://www.traderjoes.com/\">Trader Joe's\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/\">Whole Foods\u003c/a>. Risley said that when Whole Foods opened in San Francisco twenty years ago, Food Runners bought a refrigerated truck to collect all the food. Otherwise, they rely on 200 volunteers who scurry around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second biggest donors are the new start-ups and tech companies, where food is catered or served everyday. Many of those places will donate the unused food to Food Runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization, though, will pick up from anywhere: hotel buffets, hospital lunches, catered events. Last week, said Risley, they got hundreds of boxed lunches from the Oracle convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Peninsula, there's Peninsula Food Runners, which collects about two tons of food/week. In the East Bay, a number of groups glean food that's left over in the fields -- fruit that isn't picked or tomatoes that fall on the ground after the harvester comes through -- and donate that to food shelters too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all these organizations are hard at work, most of the wasted food still ends up in landfills. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/smm/foodrecovery/\" target=\"_blank\">EPA\u003c/a>, of the 36 million tons of food waste that was generated in 2011, 96% was thrown into landfills or incinerators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does food get wasted?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Portion sizes have increased:\u003c/strong> The average pizza slice doubled in calories from 1982 to 2002 and the average dinner plate increased two inches in diameter, according to the NRDC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expiration dates:\u003c/strong> Without a national standard on expiration dates, there's often confusion about what they mean and, often, people throw out food without realizing it can still be good.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Overproduction:\u003c/strong> Many bakeries and restaurants produce more than they'll sell for fear of running out or because full shelves make people more likely to buy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Attitudes:\u003c/strong> The U.S. has a different attitude than many countries about food: we tend to believe there's plenty. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The food recovery space is deeply flawed,\" she said. \"We want to create a food recovery sector\" -- like recycling, which runs off its own revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Food Shift is hoping to do, but it's not quite there yet. Right now, the organization has a number of programs to recover unused food that otherwise would go in the trash. They operate a pilot program with two schools in East Oakland where extra cafeteria food -- unopened milks and uneaten apples, for example -- are collected and then given back out to families at the school who need the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also work with restaurants to have them offer smaller portions, so less food is thrown away off of plates. Once food is on someone's plate it's nearly impossible to re-use or donate. They've launched an education campaign too to \"try to shift the culture,\" said Frasz, and educate people and get them to \u003ca href=\"http://foodshift.net/\" target=\"_blank\">sign a pledge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 693px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/foodwaste2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72055\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/foodwaste2.jpg\" alt=\"Educating people about food waste is one of the most important steps in recovering the wasted food. Photo: Food Shift\" width=\"693\" height=\"633\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educating people about food waste is one of the most important steps in recovering the wasted food. Photo: Food Shift\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last piece of their puzzle is a program with \u003ca href=\"http://www.andronicos.com/\">Andronico's\u003c/a>. The grocery store pays them to pick up extra, unused food every day. The store, then, is able to pay less in disposal and dumping fees to get rid of the food. With that money, Food Shift hires people to drive trucks to pick up the food and deliver it to \u003ca href=\"http://www.svdpusa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent de Paul's\u003c/a>, which runs a number of poverty alleviation programs including free dining halls, and to other organizations that runs food banks and provide meals. As an added bonus, Food Shift hires people who have been clients at St. Vincent's, giving them money to buy their own food and closing the hunger circle. It's a win-win -- and it's a first step in creating a green economy around food recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plenty of volunteer organizations around the Bay Area are also picking up excess food and delivering it to food shelters. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodrunners.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Runners\u003c/a> in San Francisco picked up 10 tons of wasted food/week. This year, said \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/01/food-runners-urban-gardens-on-food-wine-this-week/\">Mary Risley\u003c/a>, the founder of Food Runners, they're picking up 15 tons/week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the food comes from grocery stores like \u003ca href=\"http://www.traderjoes.com/\">Trader Joe's\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/\">Whole Foods\u003c/a>. Risley said that when Whole Foods opened in San Francisco twenty years ago, Food Runners bought a refrigerated truck to collect all the food. Otherwise, they rely on 200 volunteers who scurry around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second biggest donors are the new start-ups and tech companies, where food is catered or served everyday. Many of those places will donate the unused food to Food Runners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization, though, will pick up from anywhere: hotel buffets, hospital lunches, catered events. Last week, said Risley, they got hundreds of boxed lunches from the Oracle convention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Peninsula, there's Peninsula Food Runners, which collects about two tons of food/week. In the East Bay, a number of groups glean food that's left over in the fields -- fruit that isn't picked or tomatoes that fall on the ground after the harvester comes through -- and donate that to food shelters too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although all these organizations are hard at work, most of the wasted food still ends up in landfills. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/smm/foodrecovery/\" target=\"_blank\">EPA\u003c/a>, of the 36 million tons of food waste that was generated in 2011, 96% was thrown into landfills or incinerators.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does food get wasted?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Portion sizes have increased:\u003c/strong> The average pizza slice doubled in calories from 1982 to 2002 and the average dinner plate increased two inches in diameter, according to the NRDC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Expiration dates:\u003c/strong> Without a national standard on expiration dates, there's often confusion about what they mean and, often, people throw out food without realizing it can still be good.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Overproduction:\u003c/strong> Many bakeries and restaurants produce more than they'll sell for fear of running out or because full shelves make people more likely to buy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Attitudes:\u003c/strong> The U.S. has a different attitude than many countries about food: we tend to believe there's plenty. 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"content": "\u003cp>Post by Kate Woodsome, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/12/232306911/feminist-hulk-smash-shutdown-rescue-women-on-food-aid\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/12/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72152\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/feminist-hulk.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/feminist-hulk.jpg\" alt=\"Feminist Hulk. Courtesy Jessica Lawson\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72152\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feminist Hulk. Courtesy Jessica Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The government shutdown is frustrating enough for furloughed workers, but for families dependent on federal food assistance, it's infuriating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the \u003ca href=\"http://www.feministhulk.net/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Feminist Hulk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Twitter monster is smashing the shutdown's threats to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Food and Nutrition program, which provides food aid to pregnant women and mothers of young children deemed to be at risk of malnutrition. And she's urging her nearly 74,000 followers to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feminist Hulk is Jessica Lawson, a doctoral student in English literature at the University of Iowa who's also a mother and WIC aid recipient. She first started tweeting against sexism in 2010 – her \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/feministhulk\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter profile\u003c/a> reads \"HULK SAYS F*** PATRIARCHY. HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she's been \u003ca href=\"http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/08/22/whos-behind-the-mask-of-feminist-hulk-only-the-ms-blog-knows/\" target=\"_blank\">called \"the biggest superhero\"\u003c/a> of online feminism. And she's collected a massive social media fan club with tweets about motherhood, patriarchy and kale — which she's using for good during the shutdown, setting up \u003ca href=\"http://www.feministhulk.net/wic-and-shutdown-where-to-get-baby-food-and-formula.html\" target=\"_blank\">this online resource\u003c/a> to help families find baby food and formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked Lawson why the government shutdown has energized her inner Hulk. Below is our email exchange, edited for clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How has the government shutdown affected you and other mothers you know?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my closest friends is a foster parent on WIC. She can't afford to accept a child placement right now, because WIC's funding beyond this month is uncertain. Since I began this website, I've received a lot of emails from new parents who are terrified about making it through the week. While being a grad student is financially challenging, it provides me with a measure of predictability that makes me less vulnerable to the immediate impact the shutdown will have in the next few weeks (though it will definitely hurt us in the long term). My heart goes out to families who don't have as much certainty.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Why did you get so revved up about the potential defunding of WIC?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's nothing potential about it: WIC is not getting regular funding right now. When the government shut down, some WIC offices immediately closed, others' services were reduced. We got word at the end of last week that contingency funding had been made available to make sure WIC could get through the rest of the month. Offices reopened, and business continues, but most state offices will tell you that November remains pretty uncertain. And even with these new sources of help, North Carolina WIC stopped issuing new vouchers for a few days, though they have resumed offering them. The folks at WIC deserve serious applause for the services they are continuing to provide in this climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Why are you on WIC? What do you say to folks who think it should be defunded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a graduate student, I've supported myself the last several years on a combination of part-time teaching, student loans, food assistance, and very careful balancing. WIC was especially important during my pregnancy, as I was trying to stretch out a summer budget while still preparing for the uncertainty that childbirth can bring, and WIC continued to help during some of the scary budget crunches between semesters. And, again, I benefit from a lot of privileges that other WIC parents often don't have, so mine is actually a best-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get weary when I hear people urging poor families to simply lift themselves up by their bootstraps. Just to get from day to day when you are hungry and scared takes extraordinary energy — those bootstraps are already stretched to the max for the task of daily survival. I want to assume good will, and hope that the people who oppose WIC have simply never been in the position to direly need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What kind of response are you getting to the infant formula drive? Who is helping? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could not have done this alone. Many people I know, and lots of people I don't, have helped by sharing the link to the website, calling their local food banks to see who has formula, sending me information, and making donations themselves. While some organizations have reached out to me, and some wonderful news outlets have given me a boost, most of the response is coming from individuals who take a few minutes out of their day to help the work along. And this work is still underway – there are lots of resources out there that need donations or want to offer help, and I am finding them and adding them as fast as I can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What's your endgame with FEMINIST HULK and the formula drive? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create a central hub of information about WIC offices and, as we wait to see how this shutdown will go, alternative resources for the services WIC provides. So far, that has mostly included sources for formula and baby food, since many local food pantries don't regularly stock these items, and it's crucial to connect the ones that do with the people who need help. Several lactation consultants, midwives, and community activists have also reached out offer other support services, in the instance that WIC can no longer provide them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My endgame depends on the shutdown's endgame. It would be a relief to have the government resume, WIC's stability restored, and my site reduced to a useful novelty. I hope that happens, and that it happens soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Please share with other parents: How did you distract your 2-year-old long enough to answer these questions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hah, I didn't. These answers have been interrupted by nursing sessions, bath times, toddler renditions of Janelle Monae songs, and a mercifully early bedtime. I played with my kid and flew to and from the computer and got through the way parents always get through: by taking every opportunity we can get. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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She can't afford to accept a child placement right now, because WIC's funding beyond this month is uncertain. Since I began this website, I've received a lot of emails from new parents who are terrified about making it through the week. While being a grad student is financially challenging, it provides me with a measure of predictability that makes me less vulnerable to the immediate impact the shutdown will have in the next few weeks (though it will definitely hurt us in the long term). My heart goes out to families who don't have as much certainty.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Why did you get so revved up about the potential defunding of WIC?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's nothing potential about it: WIC is not getting regular funding right now. When the government shut down, some WIC offices immediately closed, others' services were reduced. We got word at the end of last week that contingency funding had been made available to make sure WIC could get through the rest of the month. Offices reopened, and business continues, but most state offices will tell you that November remains pretty uncertain. And even with these new sources of help, North Carolina WIC stopped issuing new vouchers for a few days, though they have resumed offering them. The folks at WIC deserve serious applause for the services they are continuing to provide in this climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Why are you on WIC? What do you say to folks who think it should be defunded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a graduate student, I've supported myself the last several years on a combination of part-time teaching, student loans, food assistance, and very careful balancing. WIC was especially important during my pregnancy, as I was trying to stretch out a summer budget while still preparing for the uncertainty that childbirth can bring, and WIC continued to help during some of the scary budget crunches between semesters. And, again, I benefit from a lot of privileges that other WIC parents often don't have, so mine is actually a best-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get weary when I hear people urging poor families to simply lift themselves up by their bootstraps. Just to get from day to day when you are hungry and scared takes extraordinary energy — those bootstraps are already stretched to the max for the task of daily survival. I want to assume good will, and hope that the people who oppose WIC have simply never been in the position to direly need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What kind of response are you getting to the infant formula drive? Who is helping? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could not have done this alone. Many people I know, and lots of people I don't, have helped by sharing the link to the website, calling their local food banks to see who has formula, sending me information, and making donations themselves. While some organizations have reached out to me, and some wonderful news outlets have given me a boost, most of the response is coming from individuals who take a few minutes out of their day to help the work along. And this work is still underway – there are lots of resources out there that need donations or want to offer help, and I am finding them and adding them as fast as I can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What's your endgame with FEMINIST HULK and the formula drive? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create a central hub of information about WIC offices and, as we wait to see how this shutdown will go, alternative resources for the services WIC provides. So far, that has mostly included sources for formula and baby food, since many local food pantries don't regularly stock these items, and it's crucial to connect the ones that do with the people who need help. Several lactation consultants, midwives, and community activists have also reached out offer other support services, in the instance that WIC can no longer provide them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My endgame depends on the shutdown's endgame. It would be a relief to have the government resume, WIC's stability restored, and my site reduced to a useful novelty. I hope that happens, and that it happens soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Please share with other parents: How did you distract your 2-year-old long enough to answer these questions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hah, I didn't. These answers have been interrupted by nursing sessions, bath times, toddler renditions of Janelle Monae songs, and a mercifully early bedtime. 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Photo: Nati Harnik/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/09/20130917_me_09.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/17/221376803/american-farmers-say-they-feed-the-world-but-do-they\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When critics of industrial agriculture complain that today's food production is too big and too dependent on pesticides, that it damages the environment and delivers mediocre food, there's a line that farmers offer in response: We're feeding the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's high-tech agriculture's claim to the moral high ground. Farmers say they farm the way they do to produce food as efficiently as possible to feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodintegrity.org/about-us/leadership\">Charlie Arnot\u003c/a>, a former public relations executive for food and farming companies, now CEO of the Center for Food Integrity, says it's more than just a debating point. \"U.S. farmers have a tremendous sense of pride in the fact that they've been able to help feed the world,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phrase showed up, for instance, a few weeks ago, at a big farm convention in Decatur, Ill. The seed and chemical company DuPont set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=1\">wall\u003c/a> with a question printed at the top in big capital letters: \"How are you making a difference to feed the world?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company invited people to answer that question, and thousands of them did. They wrote things like \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854237355182&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">raising cattle\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">growing corn and beans\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">plant as much as possible\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcVYp88-1Q\">Kip Tom\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomfarms.com/\">grows\u003c/a> corn and soybeans on thousands of acres of Indiana farmland, says he's very aware of the fact that the world has more and more people, demanding more food. Yet there are fewer and fewer farmers, \"and it's the duty of those of us who are left in the business, us family farmers, to help feed that world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means growing more food per acre, he says, which requires new and better technology: genetically engineered seed, for instance, or \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/as-biotech-seed-falters-insecticide-use-surges-in-corn-belt/\">pesticides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is why the words \"feed the world\" grate on the nerves of people who believe that large-scale, technology-driven agriculture is bad for the environment and often bad for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Mellon, a scientist with the environmental advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/lets-drop-feed-the-world-a-plea-to-move-beyond-an-unhelpful-phrase-229\">essay\u003c/a> in which she confessed to developing an allergy to that phrase. \"If there's a controversy, the show-stopper is supposed to be, 'We have to use pesticides, or we won't be able to feed the world!'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon says it's time to set that idea aside. It doesn't answer the concerns that people have about modern agriculture — and it's not even true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American-style farming doesn't really grow food for hungry people, she says. Forty percent of the biggest crop — corn — goes into fuel for cars. Most of the second-biggest crop — soybeans — is fed to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing more grain isn't the solution to hunger anyway, she says. If you're really trying to solve that problem, there's a long list of other steps that are much more important. \"We need to empower women; we need to raise incomes; we need infrastructure in the developing world; we need the ability to get food to market without spoiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed that this dispute needed a referee. So I called \u003ca href=\"http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/cbb2/\">Christopher Barrett\u003c/a>, an economist at Cornell University who studies international agriculture and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're both right,\" he said, chuckling. \"Sometimes the opposite of a truth isn't a falsehood, but another truth, right?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true, he says, that bigger harvests in the U.S. tend to make food more affordable around the world, and \"lower food prices are a good thing for poor people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Chinese pigs are growing fat on cheap soybean meal grown by farmers in the U.S. and Brazil, and that's one reason why hundreds of millions of people in China \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/12/30/144426549/in-china-finding-a-new-way-to-eat-in-times-of-plenty\">are eating much better\u003c/a> than a generation ago. They can afford to buy pork. So American farmers who grow soybeans are justified in saying that they help feed the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Margaret Mellon is right, too, Barrett says. The big crops that American farmers send abroad don't provide the vitamins and minerals that billions of people need most. So if the U.S. exports lots of corn, driving down the cost of corn meal, \"it induces poor families to buy lots of corn meal, and to buy less in the way of leafy green vegetables, or milk,\" that have the key nutrients. In this case, you're feeding the world, but not solving the nutrition problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnot, from the Center for Food Integrity, recently did a survey, asking consumers whether they think the U.S. even has a responsibility to provide food to the rest of the world. Only 13 percent of these consumers strongly agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In focus groups, many people said that if feeding the world means more industrial-scale farming, they're not comfortable with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not a message farmers like to hear. \"It is a real sense of frustration for farmers that 'feeding the world' is no longer a message that resonates with the American public,\" Arnot says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells farm groups that they'll have to find another message. They'll need to show that the way they grow food is consistent with the values of American consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That phrase showed up, for instance, a few weeks ago, at a big farm convention in Decatur, Ill. The seed and chemical company DuPont set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=1\">wall\u003c/a> with a question printed at the top in big capital letters: \"How are you making a difference to feed the world?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company invited people to answer that question, and thousands of them did. They wrote things like \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854237355182&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">raising cattle\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">growing corn and beans\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626854367355169&set=a.626853994021873.1073741836.138324096208201&type=3&theater\">plant as much as possible\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcVYp88-1Q\">Kip Tom\u003c/a>, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomfarms.com/\">grows\u003c/a> corn and soybeans on thousands of acres of Indiana farmland, says he's very aware of the fact that the world has more and more people, demanding more food. Yet there are fewer and fewer farmers, \"and it's the duty of those of us who are left in the business, us family farmers, to help feed that world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means growing more food per acre, he says, which requires new and better technology: genetically engineered seed, for instance, or \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/as-biotech-seed-falters-insecticide-use-surges-in-corn-belt/\">pesticides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is why the words \"feed the world\" grate on the nerves of people who believe that large-scale, technology-driven agriculture is bad for the environment and often bad for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Mellon, a scientist with the environmental advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/lets-drop-feed-the-world-a-plea-to-move-beyond-an-unhelpful-phrase-229\">essay\u003c/a> in which she confessed to developing an allergy to that phrase. \"If there's a controversy, the show-stopper is supposed to be, 'We have to use pesticides, or we won't be able to feed the world!'\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellon says it's time to set that idea aside. It doesn't answer the concerns that people have about modern agriculture — and it's not even true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American-style farming doesn't really grow food for hungry people, she says. Forty percent of the biggest crop — corn — goes into fuel for cars. Most of the second-biggest crop — soybeans — is fed to animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing more grain isn't the solution to hunger anyway, she says. If you're really trying to solve that problem, there's a long list of other steps that are much more important. \"We need to empower women; we need to raise incomes; we need infrastructure in the developing world; we need the ability to get food to market without spoiling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed that this dispute needed a referee. 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The three regions account for 80 percent of all meat wasted, and that's nothing to be proud of, given the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters\">climate, water and land impacts\u003c/a> of raising livestock for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food security implications of the world's food waste problem are both devastating and encouraging, says the FAO. They calculated in 2012 that by 2050, we need to increase food production by 60 percent in order to feed everyone. 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