In recent weeks, I’ve had food shelters on the brain—not only due to the upcoming holiday season but also because of guest speakers from local hunger relief programs whom we’ve hosted in my Food & Society class. The program directors(and recent new articles like this one) emphasized a common theme—food shelters need healthy food. All [...]

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Source According to a recent supermarket survey, it seems that Thanksgiving might be a little more expensive this year. With a few recent crop failures, food prices have increased significantly this year. Let’s break it down by the numbers: The average cost of a Thanksgiving dinner has increased by $5.73 (2010: $43.47; 2011: $49.20) 16 [...]

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As I’ve admitted before, I’m just a big kid…and I still watch Spongebob pretty much every Saturday. Yesterday when I turned on Nickelodeon, however, instead of the usual pineapple under the sea, I was greeted by this:   Yep, instead of facilitating sedentary living and TV-time snacking, Nickelodeon encouraged kids around the country to go [...]

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