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AG Kawamura on CA Ag and Urban Rural Roundtable
Nov. 6, 2008
A.G. Kawamura, Secretary of CA Department of Food and Agriculture's recent e-newsletter features an article on the ROC sponsered Urban/Rural Ag Roundtable - find out more here...
 

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Rodale Institute Endorses Declaration For Healthy Food and Agriculture
October 28, 2008
The Rodale Institute recently endorsed The Declaration For Healthy Food and Agriculture in its most recent newsletter,

"The Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture, a consensus call from a wide array of farm and food leaders that “a healthy food system is necessary to meet the urgent challenges of our time.” Learn how folks working with Roots of Change are gathering more input and building up support for a full-scale launch in 2009 on their way to gathering 1 million supporters for framing a new food and agriculture policy."
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CA Voters to Decide Whether Animals Need More Space
October 27, 2008
Yesterday's Washington Post featured an in depth article on CA Proposition 2 - to be voted on by CA residents next week. 

 Under ballot measure Proposition 2, "CA farmers would be prohibited from confining these animals in a way that does not let them turn around freely, lie down, stand up or fully extend their limbs. Cages and crates now commonly used to house them would be banned."

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Meat and Dairy Consumption Damaging Climate, Says Food Ethics Council
Oct. 25, 2008
A new report from the UK’s Food Ethics Council claims that one of the ways to cut food’s environmental footprint is for consumers to cut down on what the Council says are energy intensive foods like meat and dairy.

It is calling on food companies and retailers to take the lead in this regard as it claims that they influence what consumers buy.
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Just Food Nation
October 23, 2008
Today's San Francisco Bay Guardian features an article on how transforming how we eat will address poverty, public health, and environmental sustainability.  Among other things, it argues for creating progressive local food bills to generate grassroots policymaking to eventually influence the Farm Bill, by creating local legislative models.
Read the full article, including quotes from ROC President  Michael Dimock, here.
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