Progress Project Zoranger – Goal: $7,000

Kiva Team - $150 in microloans before end of the semester

Supporting Hungry Hokies with Fast-a-Thon

Coming Up

DATE AUCTION Wednesday, 11/11 - Hillcrest Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Fast-a-Thon Tuesday, 11/17 – Dinner @ GLC, 5:30 p.m.

How to help FUNDRAISING

Bake & Sell Monday, 11/16 – Zoranger Well Project

Meeting

MARKETING T-Shirts Video A-frames, table cards & Flyers

LETTERS To your Congressperson Holiday Oxfam donations

Eating and Shopping Smart

“We have the illusion of consumer freedom, but we’ve sacrificed our community life for the pleasure of purchasing lots of cheap stuff. Making and moving all that stuff can be so destructive: child labor in foreign lands, acid rain in the Northeast, depleted farmland, communities where the big economic engine is crystal meth. We often have the form of liberty but not the substance.”

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Why eat responsibly?

Environment

Health

Human Rights

Environmental Costs

Water & Air Pollution

Erosion

Soil Depletion

Deforestation

Concentrated Animal Feeding

Operations Produce as much meat with as little cost and in the shortest amount of time so that the most return can be gained.

“Western” diseases

Exposure to chemicals

Food poisoning

Health

SlaveryLow payDangerous conditions

Human Rights

Chocolate Child Slavery 30% of children under age 15 in sub-Saharan

Africa are child laborers.

200,000 children work in the Ivory Coast cocoa industry. Up to 12,000 are defined as victims of human trafficking and slavery

West Africa provides 80% of the world’s cocoa. Ivory Coast = 46%.

Cadbury, Hershey’s and Nestle all buy cocoa at commodities exchanges – Ivorian cocoa is mixed in.

Tomato Slavery in the U.S.

Immokalee Florida – Tomato capital of the U.S.

Up to 90% of the domestic tomatoes we eat come from Southern Florida.

Immigrant workers are underpaid, forced in to debt by growers, and abused.

Genetically Modified Organisms

Organisms that have been altered by combining DNA from various sources to create new genes or by splicing genetic information from one species into that of another. These organisms and their genes are patented by companies.

Organic Foods Organic crops are

typically grown without synthetic pesticides, artificial fertilizers, irradiation, or biotechnology.

Steps to ethical consumption…

KNOW WHAT YOU’RE BUYING! Read labels Avoid processed foods & foods from industrial

farms

Buy Fair Trade

Eat local and in season

Blacksburg Farmers Market

Compromise

Avoid waste: Buy what you can eat

Labels

Grocery Guidelines The most important thing is that you’re

eating real food. The fewer ingredients, the better.

Health: Avoid foods high in High Fructose Corn Syrup, enriched flour, partially hydrogenated oils

Environment: Avoid foods containing palm oil and soy products. Choose sustainably raised meat.

Look at unit prices

Certifications

Places to patron

On campus Farms & Fields – Owens Dining Hall Homestead Creamery Ice Cream @ Deet’s &

West End

Off campus EATS Farmer’s Market Kroger – Be sure to read

Places to patron

Online www.oxfam.org.uk www.equalexchange.coop www.nosweatapparel.com www.transfairusa.org www.fairtradefederation.org www.globalexchangestore.org

If you can buy it locally, you should.Local = less packaging, more localcommunity revenue

Further reading Michael Pollan

The Omnivore’s Dilemma The Botany of Desire In Defense of Food

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Further watching: Food Inc. (2008)