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I’m fasting this week—two days on just water, and another five on liquids—to stand up for the hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries that are at risk of losing U.S. food aid. If the proposed budget passes in Congress this week, support for domestic and international development—including food aid—will be cut by 41 …
A few global food justice highlights from the past week: Urban disasters and water scarcity, a tough challenge for aid workers [AlertNet] Quinoa’s Global Success Creates Quandary in Bolivia [NY Times] Cote D’ivoire: Women bring food to market, against all odds [IRIN News] Bringing Israel’s Crops from Farm to Everyone’s Table [The Jew and the …
Today is World Water Day and, exactly one year ago, there was some big news in India: a government report found that Coca-Cola’s bottling operations had caused $48 million in damages for depleting and polluting India’s water supply. Then, just last month, India’s state legislature in the southern state of Kerala passed a law allowing …
Originally posted on the Pursue blog. Las Vegas: the city of casinos, staged spectacles, over-the-top hotels and FOOD. One could spend days in a single casino and not exhaust all the eating venues within. For many visitors, going to one of the famed buffets is a can’t-miss Vegas experience: prettily presented and puffed up beyond reasonable …
This weekend marks the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim is generally thought to be a relatively light-hearted holiday, celebrated with feasting, drinking, costumes, giving gifts to friends, and general silliness. But this year as I did a pre-reading of Megilat Esther, the biblical book which describes the events we commemorate on this holiday, I couldn’t help …
