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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Potential-new-zoning-regulations-will-make-it-easier-to-start-an-urban-farm-in-Oakland.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Potential-new-zoning-regulations-will-make-it-easier-to-start-an-urban-farm-in-Oakland.jpg\" alt=\"Potential new zoning regulations will make it easier to start an urban farm in Oakland. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89691\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potential new zoning regulations will make it easier to start an urban farm in Oakland. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a foggy fall day at West Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/\" target=\"_blank\">City Slicker Farms\u003c/a> in Union Plaza Park, but by looking at the lush and green garden boxes full of basil, Swiss chard, and collard greens it’s hard to believe the growing season is almost over. While volunteers are planting root vegetables for the winter and picking the last of the green tomatoes, some food policy advocates are trying to harvest change in Oakland’s City Council. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-bountiful-bunch-of-basil-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-bountiful-bunch-of-basil-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"A bountiful bunch of basil at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89683\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bountiful bunch of basil at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Joseph-Davis-Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-tend-the-garden-beds-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Joseph-Davis-Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-tend-the-garden-beds-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Davis, Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar tend the garden beds at City Slicker Farms. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89689\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Davis, Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar tend the garden beds at City Slicker Farms. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland City Council first considered \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/w/oak049146\" target=\"_blank\">amendments\u003c/a> to the city’s zoning policies that would make it easier and cheaper to start urban farms and gardens in Oakland. The first vote passed unanimously, and on November 18, there will be final vote for these changes at the council meeting. Food policy activists and urban farming supporters are confident this vote will also be successful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some exceptions, like farms that include chickens or other livestock, these new regulations would remove the expensive and burdensome permit process from community gardens and farms in Oakland. Previously it could cost up to $3,000 to apply for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), a process that could take several months without the guarantee of approval. The proposed changes would designate agriculture activities like growing and selling fruits, vegetables, and herbs; and keeping up to three beehives, as a right. It would also change the definition of a community garden from land cultivated by “more than one” to “one or more” persons. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If you're just starting a farm, or basically or really just interested in growing your own food, to have that barrier immediately of a permit is such a stopping point,” says Ariel Dekovic, the interim executive director of City Slicker Farms. “ It really says as a city, ‘Oakland doesn't value people’s rights to grow their own food.’ So from our perspective and from our experience this is so important because it really just opens up that right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ariel-Dekovic-the-interim-Executive-Director-for-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ariel-Dekovic-the-interim-Executive-Director-for-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel Dekovic - the interim executive director for City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89685\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Dekovic - the interim executive director for City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Slicker Farms has been around since 2001 and already has CUPs for the 12 chickens they raise on site, but Dekovic says founder Willow Rosenthal probably faced barriers similar to the ones these new amendments are trying to get rid of. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“She saw the total lack of access to any kind of healthy fresh food in West Oakland. There just were no grocery stores, no place where you could get affordable healthy food easily,” Dekovic says. “That lack of access combined with a deep history in the neighborhood of residents who either had family members, family knowledge, or interest in growing their own food was the catalyst for City Slicker Farms.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/City-Slicker-Farms-in-West-Oakland-is-one-of-the-few-places-in-the-neighborhood-to-get-fresh-healthy-produce.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/City-Slicker-Farms-in-West-Oakland-is-one-of-the-few-places-in-the-neighborhood-to-get-fresh-healthy-produce.jpg\" alt=\"City Slicker Farms in West Oakland is one of the few places in the neighborhood to get fresh, healthy produce. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89686\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Slicker Farms in West Oakland is one of the few places in the neighborhood to get fresh, healthy produce. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the community markets City Slicker Farms holds every Saturday, it still is very difficult to access fresh, healthy food in West Oakland. The nearest supermarket is the Pak N Save in Emeryville, and other local grocery stores can take a 45-minute bus ride to reach. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations have begun responding to this lack of access, and West Oakland is becoming a hub for community farming. For the past few years, an organization called the \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">People’s Community Market\u003c/a> has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/02/coming-soon-a-supermarket-in-west-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">working to build\u003c/a> a full-service supermarket in West Oakland. The Oakland Unified School district is also working to create a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/118/OUSD_CentralKitchen_ConceptPaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">central kitchen\u003c/a> with an attached urban farm and education center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Murals-painted-by-the-community-in-response-to-recent-vandalism-at-the-farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Murals-painted-by-the-community-in-response-to-recent-vandalism-at-the-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Murals painted by the community in response to recent vandalism at the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89690\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murals painted by the community in response to recent vandalism at the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, in the meantime Dekovic says it needs to be easy for as many people as possible to start growing their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If you look at the report it mentions a goal that Oakland has about supporting community gardens that are multi-generational, multiethnic and welcoming to all. And this is the first step. If you are making it a right for people to be able to do this, this is really the first step to embracing that truly.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Esperanza Pallana, the director of the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a> (OFPC), agrees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To acknowledge the right to grow our own food is particularly profound because the United States does not view food as a basic human right. It would be a significant statement for our city to not only view food as a basic right, but that growing it ourselves is a right. I hope Oakland can set an example for national food policy,” she says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For the past four years Pallana and the OFPC have been working to form changes like the ones that will be decided on November 18. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this policy is also important because the rate of hunger in Alameda County is \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/news/pressreleases/pr2014-05-05CalFreshAwareness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">higher than ever\u003c/a>, Pallana adds. \"We have a climate than enables year round production of food crops. There is no reason why we can’t be growing our own way out of dependency on a food system than doesn’t serve us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Dekovic and Pallana agree that if and when these amendments pass, the work of the urban farming and food policy advocate isn’t over, it’s only the first step in an ongoing discussion. Dekovic says she would eventually like to see Oakland make the permitting process easier for urban farmers to raise livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Chickens are a pretty natural part of a produce farm, there’s a lot of beneficial systems going on there and so right now there are barriers to that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Land security is another huge issue. Dekovic worries about not being able to control the fate of farm space, which takes a lot of investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Fresh-green-beans-on-the-vine-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Fresh-green-beans-on-the-vine-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh green beans on the vine at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89688\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh green beans on the vine at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-row-of-collard-greens-almost-ready-for-harvest-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-row-of-collard-greens-almost-ready-for-harvest-.jpg\" alt=\"A row of collard greens almost ready for harvest. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89684\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of collard greens almost ready for harvest. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do we protect, enable and empower the residents who want to just have smaller scale community gardens?” One example, she says, is borrowing San Francisco’s idea for giving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/09/tax-breaks-may-turn-san-franciscos-vacant-lots-into-urban-farms/\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a> to people who open up their land to urban farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more, there’s a larger discussion that needs to take place about the role of urban farms and community gardens in areas where \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/gentrification-and-the-urban-garden\" target=\"_blank\">gentrification\u003c/a> is changing the character of neighborhoods and creating tension between longtime residents and newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban farming isn't new, Dekovic says. “My grandmother moved to the Richmond District in the 1950s from the Philippines, had a giant backyard and was growing her food there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Our mission is really to empower residents of West Oakland typically who have lived here a long time and have been doing this for a long time, but when realtors advertise the urban garden as something that it's not, something hip and fashionable, something designed to sell property and rack up home prices, it raises some interesting questions.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-plant-carrot-seeds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-plant-carrot-seeds.jpg\" alt=\"Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar plant carrot seeds. 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Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a foggy fall day at West Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/\" target=\"_blank\">City Slicker Farms\u003c/a> in Union Plaza Park, but by looking at the lush and green garden boxes full of basil, Swiss chard, and collard greens it’s hard to believe the growing season is almost over. While volunteers are planting root vegetables for the winter and picking the last of the green tomatoes, some food policy advocates are trying to harvest change in Oakland’s City Council. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-bountiful-bunch-of-basil-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-bountiful-bunch-of-basil-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"A bountiful bunch of basil at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89683\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bountiful bunch of basil at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Joseph-Davis-Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-tend-the-garden-beds-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Joseph-Davis-Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-tend-the-garden-beds-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Davis, Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar tend the garden beds at City Slicker Farms. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89689\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Davis, Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar tend the garden beds at City Slicker Farms. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland City Council first considered \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/w/oak049146\" target=\"_blank\">amendments\u003c/a> to the city’s zoning policies that would make it easier and cheaper to start urban farms and gardens in Oakland. The first vote passed unanimously, and on November 18, there will be final vote for these changes at the council meeting. Food policy activists and urban farming supporters are confident this vote will also be successful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some exceptions, like farms that include chickens or other livestock, these new regulations would remove the expensive and burdensome permit process from community gardens and farms in Oakland. Previously it could cost up to $3,000 to apply for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), a process that could take several months without the guarantee of approval. The proposed changes would designate agriculture activities like growing and selling fruits, vegetables, and herbs; and keeping up to three beehives, as a right. It would also change the definition of a community garden from land cultivated by “more than one” to “one or more” persons. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If you're just starting a farm, or basically or really just interested in growing your own food, to have that barrier immediately of a permit is such a stopping point,” says Ariel Dekovic, the interim executive director of City Slicker Farms. “ It really says as a city, ‘Oakland doesn't value people’s rights to grow their own food.’ So from our perspective and from our experience this is so important because it really just opens up that right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ariel-Dekovic-the-interim-Executive-Director-for-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ariel-Dekovic-the-interim-Executive-Director-for-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel Dekovic - the interim executive director for City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89685\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Dekovic - the interim executive director for City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Slicker Farms has been around since 2001 and already has CUPs for the 12 chickens they raise on site, but Dekovic says founder Willow Rosenthal probably faced barriers similar to the ones these new amendments are trying to get rid of. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“She saw the total lack of access to any kind of healthy fresh food in West Oakland. There just were no grocery stores, no place where you could get affordable healthy food easily,” Dekovic says. “That lack of access combined with a deep history in the neighborhood of residents who either had family members, family knowledge, or interest in growing their own food was the catalyst for City Slicker Farms.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/City-Slicker-Farms-in-West-Oakland-is-one-of-the-few-places-in-the-neighborhood-to-get-fresh-healthy-produce.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/City-Slicker-Farms-in-West-Oakland-is-one-of-the-few-places-in-the-neighborhood-to-get-fresh-healthy-produce.jpg\" alt=\"City Slicker Farms in West Oakland is one of the few places in the neighborhood to get fresh, healthy produce. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizations have begun responding to this lack of access, and West Oakland is becoming a hub for community farming. For the past few years, an organization called the \u003ca href=\"http://peoplescommunitymarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">People’s Community Market\u003c/a> has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/04/02/coming-soon-a-supermarket-in-west-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">working to build\u003c/a> a full-service supermarket in West Oakland. The Oakland Unified School district is also working to create a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/cms/lib07/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/118/OUSD_CentralKitchen_ConceptPaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">central kitchen\u003c/a> with an attached urban farm and education center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Murals-painted-by-the-community-in-response-to-recent-vandalism-at-the-farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Murals-painted-by-the-community-in-response-to-recent-vandalism-at-the-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Murals painted by the community in response to recent vandalism at the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89690\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murals painted by the community in response to recent vandalism at the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, in the meantime Dekovic says it needs to be easy for as many people as possible to start growing their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If you look at the report it mentions a goal that Oakland has about supporting community gardens that are multi-generational, multiethnic and welcoming to all. And this is the first step. If you are making it a right for people to be able to do this, this is really the first step to embracing that truly.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Esperanza Pallana, the director of the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfood.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Food Policy Council\u003c/a> (OFPC), agrees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"To acknowledge the right to grow our own food is particularly profound because the United States does not view food as a basic human right. It would be a significant statement for our city to not only view food as a basic right, but that growing it ourselves is a right. I hope Oakland can set an example for national food policy,” she says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For the past four years Pallana and the OFPC have been working to form changes like the ones that will be decided on November 18. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this policy is also important because the rate of hunger in Alameda County is \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/news/pressreleases/pr2014-05-05CalFreshAwareness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">higher than ever\u003c/a>, Pallana adds. \"We have a climate than enables year round production of food crops. There is no reason why we can’t be growing our own way out of dependency on a food system than doesn’t serve us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Dekovic and Pallana agree that if and when these amendments pass, the work of the urban farming and food policy advocate isn’t over, it’s only the first step in an ongoing discussion. Dekovic says she would eventually like to see Oakland make the permitting process easier for urban farmers to raise livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Chickens are a pretty natural part of a produce farm, there’s a lot of beneficial systems going on there and so right now there are barriers to that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Land security is another huge issue. Dekovic worries about not being able to control the fate of farm space, which takes a lot of investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Fresh-green-beans-on-the-vine-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Fresh-green-beans-on-the-vine-at-City-Slicker-Farms.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh green beans on the vine at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89688\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh green beans on the vine at City Slicker Farms. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-row-of-collard-greens-almost-ready-for-harvest-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/A-row-of-collard-greens-almost-ready-for-harvest-.jpg\" alt=\"A row of collard greens almost ready for harvest. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89684\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of collard greens almost ready for harvest. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do we protect, enable and empower the residents who want to just have smaller scale community gardens?” One example, she says, is borrowing San Francisco’s idea for giving \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/09/tax-breaks-may-turn-san-franciscos-vacant-lots-into-urban-farms/\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a> to people who open up their land to urban farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more, there’s a larger discussion that needs to take place about the role of urban farms and community gardens in areas where \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/gentrification-and-the-urban-garden\" target=\"_blank\">gentrification\u003c/a> is changing the character of neighborhoods and creating tension between longtime residents and newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban farming isn't new, Dekovic says. “My grandmother moved to the Richmond District in the 1950s from the Philippines, had a giant backyard and was growing her food there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Our mission is really to empower residents of West Oakland typically who have lived here a long time and have been doing this for a long time, but when realtors advertise the urban garden as something that it's not, something hip and fashionable, something designed to sell property and rack up home prices, it raises some interesting questions.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-plant-carrot-seeds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/Ellie-Gertler-and-Haider-Zafar-plant-carrot-seeds.jpg\" alt=\"Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar plant carrot seeds. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89687\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellie Gertler and Haider Zafar plant carrot seeds. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/arnoldabbott_enl-e0c1c3c9eedff42f75173960313e7d62ca1e7ea8-e1415318891551.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/arnoldabbott_enl-e0c1c3c9eedff42f75173960313e7d62ca1e7ea8-e1415318891551.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott, 90, director of the nonprofit group Love Thy Neighbor Inc., prepares a salad Wednesday in the kitchen of The Sanctuary Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Abbott was recently arrested, along with two pastors, for feeding the homeless in a Fort Lauderdale park. Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott, 90, director of the nonprofit group Love Thy Neighbor Inc., prepares a salad Wednesday in the kitchen of The Sanctuary Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Abbott was recently arrested, along with two pastors, for feeding the homeless in a Fort Lauderdale park. Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/348764033/eliza-barclay/archive\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Barclay\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/06/362019133/florida-activists-arrested-for-serving-food-to-homeless\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (11/6/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities are increasingly getting tough on food distribution programs for the homeless. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-homeless-feeding-citations-folo-20141105-story.html\">Sun Sentinel\u003c/a>, a 90-year-old activist and two pastors from two churches in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were arrested at a park on Sunday and then again on Wednesday for doing what they've been doing there for years: serving meals to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 22, the city's commissioners \u003ca href=\"http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-lauderdale-homeless-feeding-sites-20141021-story.html\">passed a measure\u003c/a> that requires feeding sites to be more than 500 feet away from each other and 500 feet from residential properties. Only one group is allowed to share food with the homeless per city block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/10/22/more-cities-are-making-it-illegal-to-hand-out-food-to-the-homeless/\">reported\u003c/a> in October, a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless found that since 2010, there has been a 47 percent increase in the number of cities that have passed or introduced legislation to restrict food sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures tend to take one of two forms: new rules on the use of public property (as Fort Lauderdale has done) and new food-safety regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old Fort Lauderdale activist, began offering food to the homeless living on the city's beaches in the 1990s. Then he formed his own nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"http://lovethyneighbor.org/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Love Thy Neighbor,\u003c/a> and has continued to serve food twice weekly to the homeless at the beach and in a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the poorest of the poor. They have nothing; they don't have a roof over their heads,\" Abbot said Wednesday. He added that a police officer ordered him to drop the plate of food he was holding, as if it were a weapon, the AP reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, the \u003cem>Sun Sentinel\u003c/em> says, Abbott could receive a sentence of 60 days in jail or a fine of $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I will be arrested again, I'm prepared for that,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/04/0-year-old-among-first-charged-under-fort-lauderdale-strict-rules-against/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Abbott told Fox News\u003c/a>. \"I am my brother's keeper, and what they are doing is just heartless. They are trying to sweep the poorest of the poor under the rug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/05/361793296/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (11/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no secret that the American Beverage Association spent a lot of money to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/27/359325115/soda-makers-try-to-take-fizz-out-of-bay-area-tax-campaigns\">defeat soda tax initiatives\u003c/a> in California this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local media \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/09/beverage-companies-spend-1-675-million-to-defeat-berkeley-soda-tax/\">reported\u003c/a>, ABA ads blanketed a Berkeley train station in the weeks leading up to Election Day. They were \"plastered on the walls across from the trains, pinned to spaces near the ticket machine, and laid out on the floor of the station,\" according to Berkeleyside.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the grass-roots \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/\">coalition\u003c/a> in Berkeley, Calif., that succeeded in getting 75 percent of voters to support the first-of-its-kind \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/05/361730578/berkeley-decides-to-try-taxing-away-its-soda-habit\">soda tax \u003c/a> in the nation is celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a thrilling campaign, and I think it will be the first of many,\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.tramutola.com/\"> Larry Tramutola\u003c/a>, a consultant to the coalition, said during a post-election debrief Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure imposes a penny-per-ounce tax on most sugar-sweetened beverages. 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And since homelessness in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/21/246589487/number-of-homeless-declines-again-but-gains-arent-universal\">isn't going away\u003c/a> and is even rising in some cities, more charitable groups and individuals have been stepping up the past few years to share food with these vulnerable folks in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as more people reach out to help, cities are biting back at those hands feeding the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Food-Sharing2014.pdf\">report\u003c/a> released Monday by the National Coalition for the Homeless, 21 cities have passed measures aimed at restricting the people who feed the homeless since January 2013. In that same time, similar legislation was introduced in more than 10 cities. Combined, these measures represent a 47 percent increase in the number of cities that have passed or introduced legislation to restrict food sharing since the coalition last counted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest city to crack down is Fort Lauderdale, Fla. According to the \u003cem>Sun Sentinel,\u003c/em> the city's commissioners \u003ca href=\"http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-lauderdale-homeless-feeding-sites-20141021-story.html\">passed a measure\u003c/a> early Wednesday that will require feeding sites to be more than 500 feet away from each other, with only one allowed per city block. They'll also have to be at least 500 feet from residential properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://nationalhomeless.org/about-us/who-we-are/\">Michael Stoops\u003c/a>, director of community organizing for the coalition and the editor of the report, says that as cities have felt more pressure to make economic development and tourism priorities, they've decided that food sharing programs — especially those that happen in public spaces and draw dozens, if not hundreds of people — are problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We consider measures like the one in Fort Lauderdale to be criminalizing being homeless or helping the homeless,\" says Stoops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Stoops argues that the measures will ultimately be ineffective in addressing the real problem: homelessness itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities' hope is that restricting sharing of food will somehow make [the] homeless disappear and go away,\" Stoops tells The Salt. \"But I can promise you that even if these ordinances are adopted, it's not going to get rid of homelessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures that restrict food distribution tend to take one of two forms: new rules on the use of public property and new food-safety regulations. Salt Lake City, for example, now requires that anyone preparing and serving food to the homeless get a food handler's permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, like Charlotte, N.C., it's not the local government that pressures the food groups to relocate or limit their programs — it's community groups practicing \"not in my backyard\" politics, or NIMBYism, according to the coalition's report. (The coalition notes that its report focuses on cities it has been able to track, but that many more cities may have anti-homeless-feeding legislation that the coalition may not be aware of.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marbutconsulting.com/About_Us.html\">Robert Marbut\u003c/a>, a consultant based in San Antonio, helps cities and counties deal with the problem of homelessness. He says he falls somewhere in the middle in this debate. 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Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/14/356115015/what-s-really-in-that-big-mac-mcdonald-s-is-ready-to-tell-almost-all\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/14/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you hear the one about the McDonald's hamburger that \u003ca href=\"http://oldesthamburger.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-pictures-of-oldest-hamburger.html\">still hadn't decomposed\u003c/a> after 14 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \"pink slime\" — how much goes into McDonald's beef?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, fast-food behemoth McDonald's has faced some pretty disturbing questions about the ingredients that go into its meals. And lately, its North American sales have been slumping. That may have something to do with the growing ranks of consumers asking pesky questions about what Big Food is feeding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps it's not so surprising that this week, McDonald's USA decided to tell the public, all right, we're throwing open the doors. On Monday, the company launched \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/us/en/your_questions/our_food.html\">Your Questions, Our Food\u003c/a>,\" a new advertising blitz aimed at dispelling the rumors and convincing consumers it has nothing to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new tell-all, social media-based approach\u003cstrong> — \u003c/strong>\"in many ways, it's the way the world is going,\" Ben Stringfellow, vice president of communications for McDonald's USA, \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a8951f4b99d749ebba8986cd192b450e/mcdonalds-invites-questions-about-its-food\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that effort, the company is inviting questions via Facebook and Twitter. And it has enlisted the help of Grant Imahara, former co-host of the Discovery Channel's \u003cem>Mythbusters,\u003c/em> to help address some of the most persistent concerns. In a video posted on the company's website, Imahara tours a factory in Fresno, Calif., run by Cargill, which supplies the beef used in McD's burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the tour, we learn that no, there are no eyeballs or lips in the meat and no, there's no ammonia or lean, finely textured beef (the so-called pink slime), either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beef in and beef out — nothing else is added,\" one Cargill worker tells Imahara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgSnUmhdws]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the video fails to mention is that yes, McDonald's burgers at one point did contain lean, finely textured beef, though the company phased it out in 2011. The company does acknowledge this in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/burgers-and-sandwiches.html\">longer Q&A\u003c/a> on its website, which addresses other unsavory issues, like the fact that most of its beef comes from cattle treated with hormones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new campaign follows similar efforts to pull back the curtain at McDonald's Australian and Canadian divisions, which released a highly publicized video that let us \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272112028/oh-so-thats-what-goes-into-a-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnugget\">witness the birth of a chicken McNugget\u003c/a> earlier this year. (Perhaps the most illuminating bit of information from that video was that the iconic chicken lumps are made in four shapes — the bell, ball, bow tie and boot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in tone also comes as McDonald's sales falter at its U.S. stores. Same-store sales slipped 1.5 percent during the most recent fiscal quarter, and the company is having a tough time appealing to millennials. Since 2011, the number of 19- to 21-year-olds who visited a McDonald's each month has dropped by 12.9 percentage points, as the demographic flocks to fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Five Guys, according to \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-faces-millennial-challenge-1408928743\">data\u003c/a> the restaurant consulting group Technomic gathered for \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal. \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumers may welcome McDonald's move toward more transparency, some critics say what's really needed is a change in its core menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people simply don't think of McDonald's as a healthy place to eat, despite its efforts to offer more menu choices,\" Civil Eats co-founder Naomi Starkman\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/10/13/how-mcdonalds-could-serve-up-a-happier-meal/\"> writes\u003c/a>. 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Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/15/356416365/new-gmos-get-a-regulatory-green-light-with-a-hint-of-yellow\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/15/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government regulators have approved a new generation of genetically engineered corn and soybeans. They're the latest weapon in an arms race between farmers and weeds, and the government's green light is provoking angry opposition from environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual \u003ca href=\"http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/72fde554930f3f6985257d7200591180!OpenDocument\">decision\u003c/a>, at first glance, seems narrow and technical. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste1-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste1-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Greenfield has ridden his bicycle across the country, dumpster diving in various cities and making public displays of the food he finds to show how much food is regularly thrown out. Here he is shown with one of his displays in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: Courtesy of Rob Greenfield\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88810\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Greenfield has ridden his bicycle across the country, dumpster diving in various cities and making public displays of the food he finds to show how much food is regularly thrown out. Here he is shown with one of his displays in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: Courtesy of Rob Greenfield\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A meal for 5,000 – cooked with produce that would otherwise have been thrown away – will be served in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza on Saturday, October 18 to draw attention to the problem of food waste in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed “\u003ca href=\"http://www.endfoodwaste.org/events.html\" target=\"_blank\">Feeding the 5000\u003c/a>” after the Biblical story in which Jesus feeds the multitudes with five loaves of bread and two fish, the event began in 2009 in the United Kingdom and has been taking place in European cities ever since. This is the first time it will take place in the United States, with a second event following the Oakland one in Chapel Hill, N. C., a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vision behind it is that we can feed everyone on this planet with the amount of food we produce, but so much is thrown away,” said Dana Frasz, executive director of the Oakland based \u003ca href=\"http://foodshift.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Shift\u003c/a>, one of the event’s sponsors. Some estimate that 40 percent of food is thrown away in the U.S., while one in six people are food insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal will come from some 10,000 pounds of food that would not be sold because the potatoes or carrots are “too big or too small or blemished somehow or sunburned,” said Frasz, noting that produce that does not conform to specific standards by grocery stores is often thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste2-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste2-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Frasz, the executive director of Oakland’s Food Shift, grows kale in her own West Oakland garden. Right now she is helping to organize the Feeding the 5000 event on Sunday. Photo: Jordan Schuster\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88811\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Frasz, the executive director of Oakland’s Food Shift, grows kale in her own West Oakland garden. Right now she is helping to organize the Feeding the 5000 event on Sunday. Photo: Jordan Schuster\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the public is invited to the rally and feeding on Saturday, which goes from noon to 5 p.m., organizers have several days worth of events keeping them busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, organizers and speakers will spend the day harvesting vegetables from Petaluma’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomfieldorganics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomfield Organics\u003c/a> to be used in the meal. On Thursday and Friday, a conference on reducing food waste dubbed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncrarecycles.org/ZeroFoodWasteForum\" target=\"_blank\">First Zero Food Waste Forum\u003c/a> will take place at UC Berkeley timed to coincide with World Food Day on October 16. Sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncrarecycles.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Recycling Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Resources Defense Council\u003c/a> and Food Shift, the conference is expected to draw 300 people, and features many of those who will be speaking at Saturday’s event, but also such locals as Sam Mogannam of \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-Rite Market\u003c/a>, speaking from a grocer’s perspective on food waste, and Cassie Bartholomew of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Waste\u003c/a>, speaking about how Alameda County is trying to lessen its food waste through prevention and donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night, volunteers and organizers will spend their time prepping and chopping in what’s been dubbed “Disco Soup.” Music will be blaring at the commercial kitchen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.svdp-alameda.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County\u003c/a>, where organizers and volunteers will doing much of the prep work for Saturday’s meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste3-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste3-new.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Frasz, left, and her Food Shift team collect food from the Jack London Square Farmers Market. Photo: Sivashankar Pattamadai\" width=\"1000\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88812\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Frasz, left, and her Food Shift team collect food from the Jack London Square Farmers Market. Photo: Sivashankar Pattamadai\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the meal on Saturday, 3000 pounds of groceries will be given away. Keynote speakers that day include Tristam Stuart, founder of the first \u003ca href=\"http://feedbackglobal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Feeding the 5000 in the U.K.\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/about/staff/dana-gunders\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Gunders\u003c/a> of the NRDC who wrote a widely distributed report called “Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40 percent of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill;” \u003ca href=\"http://www.wastedfood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bloom\u003c/a>, author of “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food;” and Robert Egger, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.dccentralkitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Central Kitchen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LA Kitchen\u003c/a>, both of which train low-income adults for culinary careers, as well as use recycled food. There will also be a special presentation by \u003ca href=\"http://robgreenfield.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Greenfield\u003c/a>, who rode his bike across the country, stopping in various cities making displays of food he found in dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste4-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste4-new.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Egger, founder of DC Central Kitchen, will be a keynote speaker at Feeding the 5000 on Saturday. Photo: Capitol File Magazine\" width=\"650\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Egger, founder of DC Central Kitchen, will be a keynote speaker at Feeding the 5000 on Saturday. Photo: Capitol File Magazine\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There will also be cooking demos by chefs showing how to waste less food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88814\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 254px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/jordan-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/jordan-new.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Figueiredo\" width=\"254\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88814\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Figueiredo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan Figueiredo, whose day job is as a Solid Waste Professional at Castro Valley Sanitary District, but is volunteer event coordinator as well as “coordinator of chaos” for the conference and Saturday event, has been working closely with organizers in London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that one in five residents of Alameda County depend on their local food bank or pantry, which is higher than the national figure. And food waste isn’t just about people going hungry, he said, it’s also taking a major toll on the environment. “Food systems are responsible for 33 percent of our human-made emissions, which, if you extrapolate that out, 14 percent of all of our human-made emissions come from just food waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeding the 5000 is cosponsored by Feedback, the Natural Resources Defense Council, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sustainableamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable America\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gracelinks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">GRACE Communications Foundation\u003c/a>, Food Shift, \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/welcome?splash=1\" target=\"_blank\">People’s Grocery\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecology Center\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> and St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping food out of the landfill and compost and getting it to hungry people is a mission all of these groups support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue wasn’t really part of the conversation three years ago, but now it’s very much part of it,” said Frasz. “Part of what we’re doing here is encouraging people to think beyond compost. We’re doing a good job of developing a compost system, but we need to cultivate a system in which we capture food before it goes into the trash or compost.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncrarecycles.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Recycling Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Resources Defense Council\u003c/a> and Food Shift, the conference is expected to draw 300 people, and features many of those who will be speaking at Saturday’s event, but also such locals as Sam Mogannam of \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-Rite Market\u003c/a>, speaking from a grocer’s perspective on food waste, and Cassie Bartholomew of \u003ca href=\"http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Waste\u003c/a>, speaking about how Alameda County is trying to lessen its food waste through prevention and donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night, volunteers and organizers will spend their time prepping and chopping in what’s been dubbed “Disco Soup.” Music will be blaring at the commercial kitchen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.svdp-alameda.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County\u003c/a>, where organizers and volunteers will doing much of the prep work for Saturday’s meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste3-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste3-new.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Frasz, left, and her Food Shift team collect food from the Jack London Square Farmers Market. Photo: Sivashankar Pattamadai\" width=\"1000\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88812\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dana Frasz, left, and her Food Shift team collect food from the Jack London Square Farmers Market. Photo: Sivashankar Pattamadai\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the meal on Saturday, 3000 pounds of groceries will be given away. Keynote speakers that day include Tristam Stuart, founder of the first \u003ca href=\"http://feedbackglobal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Feeding the 5000 in the U.K.\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrdc.org/about/staff/dana-gunders\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Gunders\u003c/a> of the NRDC who wrote a widely distributed report called “Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40 percent of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill;” \u003ca href=\"http://www.wastedfood.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bloom\u003c/a>, author of “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food;” and Robert Egger, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.dccentralkitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Central Kitchen\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakitchen.org/\" target=\"_blank\">LA Kitchen\u003c/a>, both of which train low-income adults for culinary careers, as well as use recycled food. There will also be a special presentation by \u003ca href=\"http://robgreenfield.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Greenfield\u003c/a>, who rode his bike across the country, stopping in various cities making displays of food he found in dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste4-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodwaste4-new.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Egger, founder of DC Central Kitchen, will be a keynote speaker at Feeding the 5000 on Saturday. Photo: Capitol File Magazine\" width=\"650\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Egger, founder of DC Central Kitchen, will be a keynote speaker at Feeding the 5000 on Saturday. 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And food waste isn’t just about people going hungry, he said, it’s also taking a major toll on the environment. “Food systems are responsible for 33 percent of our human-made emissions, which, if you extrapolate that out, 14 percent of all of our human-made emissions come from just food waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeding the 5000 is cosponsored by Feedback, the Natural Resources Defense Council, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sustainableamerica.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable America\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gracelinks.org/\" target=\"_blank\">GRACE Communications Foundation\u003c/a>, Food Shift, \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/welcome?splash=1\" target=\"_blank\">People’s Grocery\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecology Center\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> and St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping food out of the landfill and compost and getting it to hungry people is a mission all of these groups support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue wasn’t really part of the conversation three years ago, but now it’s very much part of it,” said Frasz. “Part of what we’re doing here is encouraging people to think beyond compost. 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I can tell you who's doing it and who's not doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Cook says, competition from wholesale produce \"is the least of my worries.\" The re-sellers, he says, \"can't control quality, and they sure aren't going to out-sell me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.freshfarmmarkets.org/\">FreshFarm Markets\u003c/a>, which runs several of the markets where Cook sells his harvest, tries to verify that farmers are selling only their own produce at these markets. \"They do come around and check\" to make sure that a farm is growing the types of produce it's selling at the market, says Cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more difficult is verifying production quantities, making sure that farmers aren't adding a few extra boxes of tomatoes from the wholesale market. \"They almost have to be a doggone private investigator to catch some of this stuff,\" Cook says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomewave.org/about-us/board/gus-schumacher/\">Gus Schumacher\u003c/a>, a former USDA official who's been a close observer and promoter of farmers markets for several decades, the most successful farmers markets in the country are \"producer only,\" with strict rules against selling produce acquired elsewhere. 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Photo: Christophe Di Pascale/Corbis\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on Morning Edition:\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/09/20140930_me_european_activists_say_they_dont_want_any_us_chlorine_chicken.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Susanna Capelouto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpb.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Public Broadcasting\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/30/351774240/european-activists-say-they-dont-want-any-u-s-chlorine-chicken\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/30/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mute Schimpf doesn't want to eat American chicken. That's because most U.S. poultry is chilled in antimicrobial baths that can include chlorine to keep salmonella and other bacteria in check. In Europe, chlorine treatment was banned in the 1990s out of fear that it could cause cancer.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Europe there is definitely a disgust about chlorinated chicken,\" says Schimpf, a food activist with Friends of the Earth Europe, an environmental group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chlorine vs. no chlorine debate has come up a lot recently in the context of a massive trans-Atlantic trade agreement. This week, negotiators from Europe and the U.S. are meeting in Washington for a seventh round of talks aimed at creating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement would create the world's biggest free-trade zone and touch everything from banking to agriculture. But there's a lot of opposition to TTIP in Europe, where some fear it would degrade their food standards. And activists have found the perfect symbol for their fight in chlorinated American chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the German equivalent of \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em>, called the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://heuteshow.zdf.de/\">Heute Show\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> American poultry has become a running joke. In one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRF8R7Ug6s\">skit\u003c/a>, a reporter is in the White House kitchen eating a chicken nugget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't be mad at someone who makes such a tasty chlorinated chicken,\" he quips. \"Mmm, it has a slight aroma of kiddy pool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chlorine isn't really a public health concern, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.poultry.uga.edu/personnel/russell.htm\">Scott Russell\u003c/a>, a professor of poultry processing at the University of Georgia. \"Most of these concerns about chemical use and those kinds of things are blown up in the media to become a problem that really doesn't exist,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American processors use about a cap full of chlorine per gallon, or 50 parts per million, in a water tank that chills the chicken carcasses. That chlorine, he explains, is used to disinfect the poultry. He says it gets washed off and poses no health threat to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the EU takes a different approach — it operates on the precautionary principle, a kind of abundance of caution when it comes to any substance that enters your body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Europe, their efforts to control foodborne illness is all in the live bird. For example, the grandparent stock, the breeder stock that makes the egg of the chicken we eat eventually — all of those flocks of chicken are tested regularly for salmonella,\" Russell says. If any of these chickens test positive, farmers have to get rid of the entire flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this method, Europeans have reduced salmonella in their chicken to just 2 percent, Russell says, but the process took 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Europeans have pushed for some of the toughest food-safety standards in the world. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/wheat_wide1-e1411773652535.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/wheat_wide1-e1411773652535.jpg\" alt=\"How did that genetically modified wheat end up in a field in Oregon? Investigators still don't know, but now they've found GMO wheat in Montana, too. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88074\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How did that genetically modified wheat end up in a field in Oregon? Investigators still don't know, but now they've found GMO wheat in Montana, too. 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But that announcement was almost overshadowed by a new mini-bombshell: More unapproved GMO wheat was discovered this past summer at Montana State University's Southern Agricultural Research Center (SARC) in Huntley, Mont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was discovered when workers tried to clear a small field using the weedkiller glyphosate. Some wheat plants survived, because they carried the glyphosate-tolerance gene that the Monsanto Corporation had inserted into its GM varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were field trials of such wheat at that research station from 2000 to 2003, but all the grain from those trials should have been removed or destroyed. 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Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Kristofor Husted, \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/content/tossed-out\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/25/351495274/supermarkets-waste-tons-of-food-as-they-woo-shoppers\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/25/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supermarkets and restaurants serve up more than 400 million pounds of food each year, but nearly a third of it never makes it to a stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With consumers demanding large displays of unblemished, fresh produce, many retailers end up tossing a mountain of perfectly edible food. Despite efforts to cut down on all that waste, in the U.S., the consumer end of the food chain still accounts for the largest share. It comes down to shoppers demanding stocked shelves, buying too much and generally treating food as a renewable resource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent visit to the Hy-Vee supermarket in Independence, Mo., illustrates the problem. Shopper Shirley Phelps scans the banana stand, looking for the perfect bunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want them too ripe,\" she says, skipping over brown-spotted bananas in favor of a bunch still tinged with green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, produce like those brown-dotted bananas would be headed for the landfill. \"[It's a] perfectly good banana,\" says store director Paul Hoppman. But \"it won't sell because it just doesn't look good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoppman says presentation is paramount to keeping business. That means culling fruit deemed too ripe and making sure the stands are stocked to the brim with perfect bounty year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a fine line you're walking, having the best fruit out there that is going to taste good to the customer but not breaking down yet,\" Hoppman says. So stores are always rotating out the less desirable produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 10 percent of the available food supply in the U.S. is wasted every year at the retail level, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013-june/ers-food-loss-data-help-inform-the-food-waste-discussion.aspx#.VBIJHmMgtCM\">U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>, and about 20 percent is wasted at home. That's food worth more than $160 billion. And it's food that could go toward feeding the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1565410/err173_summary.pdf\">1 in 7\u003c/a> American households that can't find enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group that aims to rescue food from the rubbish bin to better purpose is Indiana-based \u003ca href=\"http://food-finders.org/about/\">Food Finders\u003c/a>. The group redistributes unsellable food from supermarkets and restaurants to food banks. But the group's biggest challenge, says its executive director, Katy Bunder, is finding a useful afterlife for the ready-made meals that supermarkets serve up to cater to convenience shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me the biggest amount of wasted food is prepared food,\" says Bunder. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't repackage it, freeze it, hold on to it and then distribute it through our mobile pantry the next days,\" she says. In some states, the law requires that food that's been cooked be served right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those appetizer plates, specialized salads and hot-and-ready-to serve rotisserie chickens are unlikely to disappear from the aisles so long as hungry, harried shoppers keep scooping them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big source of retail food waste? Consumer confusion over date labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety specialist Londa Nwadike says consumers often mistake \"sell by\" and \"best by\" dates for expiration dates — which they're NOT. They're actually meant to indicate how long food has been around, not how safe it is. (Here's our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/12/26/dont-fear-that-expired-food/\">post\u003c/a> explaining the labeling problem.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study in the United Kingdom found that label confusion was responsible for 20 percent of the perfectly edible food that gets tossed out in homes. That confusion also sticks supermarket directors, like Hy-Vee's Paul Hoppman, with heaps of healthful food that no one will buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reduce the food waste that gets trucked to a landfill, many supermarkets are turning to compost. Compost companies can take organic waste and turn it into a valuable soil amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hy-Vee store in Independence has cut its landfill deliveries from three times a week to three times a month, thanks to the compost pile. The store also works with church food banks that swing by daily to pick up unsold food. That earns the company a small tax write-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, supermarkets are also using software that projects how much food to order from the warehouse, so they're not stuck with massive amounts of extra. But, Hoppman says, although these advancements are helpful, food waste remains a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the stores have grown, that food waste [has grown] more and more all the time,\" he says. \"My progression of working in stores was 20,000- to a 30,000- to a 60,000-square-foot store, and then this store is 82,000 square feet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a lot of square feet of food that might go uneaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Harvest Public Media series \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/content/tossed-out\">Tossed Out: Food Waste in America\u003c/a>. \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, produce like those brown-dotted bananas would be headed for the landfill. \"[It's a] perfectly good banana,\" says store director Paul Hoppman. But \"it won't sell because it just doesn't look good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. 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So stores are always rotating out the less desirable produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 10 percent of the available food supply in the U.S. is wasted every year at the retail level, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013-june/ers-food-loss-data-help-inform-the-food-waste-discussion.aspx#.VBIJHmMgtCM\">U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>, and about 20 percent is wasted at home. That's food worth more than $160 billion. And it's food that could go toward feeding the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1565410/err173_summary.pdf\">1 in 7\u003c/a> American households that can't find enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group that aims to rescue food from the rubbish bin to better purpose is Indiana-based \u003ca href=\"http://food-finders.org/about/\">Food Finders\u003c/a>. The group redistributes unsellable food from supermarkets and restaurants to food banks. But the group's biggest challenge, says its executive director, Katy Bunder, is finding a useful afterlife for the ready-made meals that supermarkets serve up to cater to convenience shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me the biggest amount of wasted food is prepared food,\" says Bunder. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't repackage it, freeze it, hold on to it and then distribute it through our mobile pantry the next days,\" she says. In some states, the law requires that food that's been cooked be served right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those appetizer plates, specialized salads and hot-and-ready-to serve rotisserie chickens are unlikely to disappear from the aisles so long as hungry, harried shoppers keep scooping them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big source of retail food waste? Consumer confusion over date labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety specialist Londa Nwadike says consumers often mistake \"sell by\" and \"best by\" dates for expiration dates — which they're NOT. 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