New City Bills Could Require Sexual Harassment Bystander Training
New York City Council Member Rafael Espinal wants to help give nightlife staff the right tools to identify and respond to sexual harassment or assault.
Food Policy
It’s Getting Easier to Make and Sell Food from Your Home
A new Harvard report shows that, like some other states, New York is generally supportive of so-called “cottage food producers.”
A New NYC Health + Hospitals Program Aims to Help Patients Adopt a Plant-Based Diet
Launching this fall the Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program is partly a result of Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams’s work around plant-based nutrition.
New York City Considers Going Strawless
If the city could pass a ban on plastic straws, it would be the largest city in the U.S. to do so.
Changing the SNAP Budget Could Increase Pressure on Food Banks’ Produce Distribution Programs
Programs like Food Bank for New York City’s Green Sidewalks can sometimes reach up to 2,000 New Yorkers a day.
Cuomo Proposes No Student Goes Hungry Program to Increase Student Access to Healthy School Meals
Still just a proposal, it would promote free and reduced-price school meals and ensure that schools are sourcing from New York farms.
The Future of Meat: MOFAD’s Roundtable Proves It’s Fraught With Issues of Economics, Ethics, Emotions and Taste
If those of us who want change can’t agree on what the future of meat should look like, then there may not be a bright future for animal agriculture at all.
How New York Legislation Helped Put Local Liquor in Your Cabinet
Stop at your favorite watering hole for a drink and it can be difficult to choose among all the New York bottles suddenly crowding the bar.
Paul Greenberg on Edible Institute and What’s Good for Local Waters and Communities
We caught up with Paul Greenberg in anticipation of Edible Institute 2014.
What We’re Reading: May 3, 2014
This week, our editors are doing what comes naturally—whether it’s getting off the treadmill for a bagel or reveling in the digestive process. Happy reading!
What We’re Reading: April 26, 2014
This week, our editors are getting ready for spring (finally! finally!) with good reads on jam, craft beer and gardening. Dig in!
Food Tank’s Danielle Nierenberg Discusses the Food “Movement” and Tells Us How to Make Change
Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank’s co-founder, will be at Edible Institute. We asked her why she thinks the event is important and what she thinks we can do to make change.
