Hunter College  NYC Food Policy Watch

May  2016

The Advocate:  Interview with Chef Dan Barber Dan Barber is the award-winning chef of Blue Hill, a restaurant in Manhattan's West Village, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, located within the nonprofit farm and education center Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in upstate New York. Chef Barber, the author of The Third Plate (Penguin Press, 2014) is an innovative and recognized leader in food and agriculture policy. I had the opportunity to do an email interview with him and learn more about some of his thoughts and philosophy on food, farm-to-table restaurants, and being a chef.. Read more here>>>  Food Policy Snapshot Tel Aviv: Green Label for Restaurants, Bars and Cafes Photo Credit_ StateofIsrael The city of Tel Aviv, in partnership with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Standards Institute of Israel, has created a "Green Label for Restaurants, Bars and Cafes." The "Green Label" is issued to restaurants, bars and cafes that adopt an environmentally friendly code of conduct and food waste regulations. The Green Label program facilitates the "greening" of interested businesses through training resources and capacities. Read more here>>>  Food System Movement 21 New York Organizations Working  to Transform the Food System The Youth Farm The UN Food and Agriculture Organization the role that food systems play in human and environmental health. By working to change the current food system and shifting the way food is produced, procured, stored, transported, and distributed, organizations can improve nutrition and contribute to environmental sustainability.     Read more here>>> Food Policy for Breakfast Seminar Series  Nutrition Incentives: Michel Nischan, Wholesome Wave Food Policy for Breakfast Seminar Series Thursday, May 19, 2016 Panelists Michel Nischan , Founder, Wholesome Wave   Barbara J. Turk,  Director of Food Policy, Mayor's Office Gary Glowaczeski, Farmer Seminar will be held:  Hunter College Silberman Building 2180 Third Avenue, Auditorium New York, NY 10035 8:45am - 10:15am  1.5 CPE Credits (Level 2) have been granted  from the Commission on Dietetic Registration Hot Coffee and a "Real" Healthy Breakfast Will Be Served Starting at 8:30am Make Sure To RSVP Soon - Seating is Limited - Event is Free RSVP

The Latest Food Policy News   Do New York City's Calorie Counts Actually Make Us Eat Better? (City Limits) New food regulations to ban sale of junk food in Delhi's school canteens (DailyMail) Children in Farm Communities Pay a Steep Price for the Food We Eat (Civil Eats)     Why The FDA Is Re-Evaluating The Nutty Definition Of 'Healthy' Food (NPR Salt) The Future of Food According to Silicon Valley Is Bleak (Vanity Fair) Urban Farms Bring Us Together, but Can They Feed Enough of Us? (Civil Eats)  Despite economic recovery, every single county in America is facing hunger (CNBC) How Minimum Wage Hikes Could Affect Franchisees (Eater) Bartenders Can't Refuse Pregnant Women Alcohol, New York City Says (NY Times) Food Policy Journal Watch  Stave off cognitive decline with seafood (Neurology)  Obesity less dangerous than 40 years ago (JAMA)   Influential factors of the social divide in child obesity rates (Archives of Disease in Childhood)    Artificially sweetened beverages consumed in pregnancy linked to increased infant BMI (JAMA Pediatrics) Analysis of more than 1.5 million people finds meat consumption raises mortality rates (Journal of the American Osteopathic Association) Apples or fries (BMC Research Notes)  Can believing you are a food addict affect your eating behavior? (Obesity)  Good nutrition positively affects social development, Penn research shows (Maternal and Child Nutrition)  New York City Food Policy Watch is the monthly e-newsletter of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. We keep an eye on food policy in New York City and on urban food policy around the nation and the world. We also provide updates on our own policy analyses and research activities and on the food policy activities of City University of New York faculty, students and staff.   To subscribe to our newsletter click here >>>

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