Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011...11:58 pm
real food challenge
this weekend i am going to be participating in this year’s northeast real food challenge summit. it’s being held at northeastern university this year and i am SO EXCITED! food is kind of a hot button issue for me. food and food politics are two things that i happen to be very passionate about.
rfc is the perfect place for a girl like me! its a conference of different universities from all over the northeast (universities from as far away as maryland are coming i have heard!) we are going to hear from local students who are making a difference in their communities and then participate in a bunch of workshops that focus on many different issues in the food world.
this might sound like a waste of precious free time to some of you and that’s fine. but i know that the my choices create a ripple effect, and they affect many more people that i could possibly imagine. real food challenge is an effort to motivate students to change the way that their universities handle food. for example, by making a switch to serve more locally grown products. there have been major changes at universities all over the country already!
sodexo, the company that runs suffolk’s kitchens, has recently decided to make meatless mondays a national event at all of their locations. the change over will start next school year. i know that a lot of people are going to be unhappy, but this small change, sacrificing meat for one day, will be so effective. it will be so beneficial to our environment and our health!
bah, ok enough from me! i am sure, though, that this experience is going to be amazing! i’ll be sure to blog about it next week! 🙂
ps. check out real food challenge at realfoodchallenge.org