It’s Time to Eat Real, America

Join the nationwide celebration of all things food on October 24, 2011.

Food Day seeks to bring together all aspects of food from sustainable agriculture, to nutrition and health, to access and affordability.

Sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day is backed by some of the most inspirational voices in the movement such as Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, and Will Allen. More than 50 organizations--including Slow Food USA, the Sierra Club, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and the National Farmers Market Coalition--are gearing up make a difference.

Food Day was founded on six national priorities: reduce diet-related disease by promoting healthy foods, support sustainable farms & cut subsidies to big agribusiness, expand access to food and alleviate hunger, protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms, promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids, and obtain fair wages for all workers in the food system.

When 63 percent of Americans are obese or overweight, 25.8 million of them children, and diet related diseases like diabetes and heart disease are skyrocketing, it’s hard to ignore the problem. Diet related health is the most visible, and talked, about problem but there is a lot more to food than meets the eye.

Food Day draws attention to: food deserts (areas where fresh, healthy, affordable foods are scarce), the wages of workers in the food system, the consequences of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the importance of sustainable agriculture, and the type of food-messages targeted at our children.

Visit www.FoodDay.org for more information.