The Real Food is Not Advertised

“Omnivore’s Dilemma” Author Michael Pollan’s New Advice on Buying Food: “Don’t Buy Any Food You’ve Ever Seen Advertised”
From DemocracyNow.org
Michael Pollan is one of the nation’s leading writers and thinkers in this country on the issue of food. He is author of several books about food, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and his [...]

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Houston Food Not Bombs To Keep Serving, Despite Being Told To Move

The Library’s Patience For The Homeless Apparently Has Expired
By Paul Knight in Spaced City
A Houston police officer confronted some members of Food Not Bombs on Monday night – the group serves food to the homeless outside the library – to tell them to start thinking about another base of operation.
“There were some other cops talking [...]

Tokyo NPO told to stop feeding homeless

By ALEX MARTIN, Japan Times
The nonprofit organization Sanyukai, which aids the homeless in Tokyo’s Sanya district, has been ordered by the metropolitan government to stop handing out its weekly free meals along the Sumida River because local residents are complaining, the volunteer group’s chief said Friday.
Metro officials said most of the complaints were filed since [...]

Food Not Bombs Under Scrutiny in Petaluma, California

Police to revisit food-provider location
Food Not Bombs volunteers continue to serve day laborers, despite prior warning
By DAN JOHNSON, ARGUS-COURIER
Food Not Bombs volunteers are still serving food to day laborers at Washington and Howard streets on Saturdays, and the Petaluma Police Department intends to again send officers to the location to determine whether or not they [...]

anti-Food Not Bombs Law Overturned

ORLANDO — A homeless feeding at Lake Eola Park Wednesday night was the first since a court overturned a city ordinance.
The ordinance banned homeless feedings, saying the weekly meals created safety and sanitary problems for nearby businesses.
However, last week a U.S. district judge overturned the ruling, saying it violated the constitutional rights of activists who [...]

Homeland Food Security Alert: Food liberated and available

Under the cover of darkness, on the night of June 26, 2008, operatives working with Homeland Food Security liberated several boxes of food from their unjust imprisonment in a supermarket dumpster.
This food has been left out in front of Camas books at Quadra and Kings, available for the use of all.
This is not the first [...]

Athens: Looters check out with bags of stolen food

(FREE THE FOOD!!!)
-from infoshop.org
In the second incident of its kind during the last two weeks, a group of about 20 people walked into two supermarkets in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas, stole food and then distributed it at an open-air fruit and vegetable market.
Police said that the youths entered the Dia and Veropoulos [...]

Dumpster Diver Court Victory

Food security activists in Victoria declared victory today in a 2 1/2 year old dumpster diving court case.
Charges against four people who were arrested in January of 2006 were stayed after one of the Crown’s witnesses failed to appear.
Dozens of supporters gathered on the courthouse lawn with Food Not Bombs and Homeland Food Security (groups [...]

Natives Face Salmon Food Shortage

(I used to post salmon crisis news every day, but got frustrated that all the attention was being given to the effect on sport and commercial fishing, and not on the impacts to indigenous communities and culture. Finally, an article emerges…)
By Colleen Kimmett, The Tyee
Sharolise Baker is waiting for, and fearing, the day when no [...]