Category Archives: food security

The House That Chicken Built

October 5, 2009 – 5:45 pm

To atone for its creation of the Double Down Sandwich, KFC-parent conglomerate and Louisville-based grease-merchant Yum! Brands has awarded grants totaling $7,800 to six area non-profit organizations as part of Operation Brightside’s “NatureScape” program. Although none of these programs include provisions for emergency bypass surgery, the money is being used to fund, among other things, vegetable gardens [...]

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“Healthy in a Hurry” stores launched

January 15, 2009 – 2:55 pm

Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson unveiled Metro government’s new “Healthy in a Hurry” initiative today, which will help bring fresh foods to low-income neighborhoods. The mayor was joined by a gallery of food justice advocates, along with Metro Health and Wellness Director Dr. Adewale Troutman, Metro Council President David Tandy and the four Meyzeek Middle School [...]

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Attack of the chickens

October 10, 2008 – 3:34 pm

On today’s menu for my eating alone in west Louisville story — Killer F@$%ing Chickens. I picked it up from a nearby franchise on 18th & Broadway. I’m sure PETA would be pissed, but I had to delay lunch until 2 p.m. because I was covering the Yarmuth-Northup debate at noon. It was downtown at [...]

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Iron Chefs in W. Louisville

June 17, 2008 – 6:45 pm

Seeking to promote good nutrition and healthy, home cooked meals in Louisville’s urban centers, the Community Farm Alliance along with Urban Fresh are hosting an Iron Chef competition this Saturday, June 21st at the Victory Park Farmers’ Market at 22nd and Kentucky.
The two chefs, Richard Mezoff of the Ohio River Valley Food Venture and Executive [...]

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Are you hungry for test-tube meat?

April 22, 2008 – 4:39 pm

As an imvbemwifflitarian (I’m mostly vegetarian but eat meat when I fucking feel like it), I’m not sure how I feel about test-tube meat. But however you feel about it, it’s coming to a plate near you - probably within the next 5-10 years. Test tube, or in vitro, meat is grown in labs from [...]

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L.I.F.E. Lessons

February 19, 2008 – 4:13 am

The 143 million lbs. of beef recalled Sunday is another example that Americans need to pay closer attention to what’s on our plates. Short of thousands of dying suddenly from contamination, food security seems destined to be one of the issues we comfortably ignore.
Food justice and food security in L’ville (JCPS dumped 1,200 lbs. of [...]

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