I watched the documentary “Starved.” This was about a variety of food-related issues, particularly in Pennsylvania. This was about how people couldn’t afford healthy food or were cut off from proper nutrition because there were no grocery stores nearby.

I did lots of work with the term food Deserts but they also used a term, “Food Swamps” as one step worse then food deserts. This problem seems to be getting better but it is important that we help prevent it. This documentary helped me understand how food insecurity doesn’t always have to be a financial thing.

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On Feb 17, 2022, Bayo, Atticus and I met with lauren Ornelas from the Food Empowerment Project. lauren is the founder of The Food Empowerment Project. The Food Empowerment Project’s goal is to create more sustainable food in America. They are a non-profit organization that is located in San Jose, California. They encourage Healthy Food Choices. They are a vegan organization founded in 2007. lauren belives that the government should be really focusing on this topic as they are not focusing on it enough.

Here is my personal reaction to this interview. lauren stated that this issue needs to be way more recocnized, her and her orginization work with other orginizations around america and she belives its really important to know what other orginzations are doing the same work as her. I personaly agree to these statements that she mentioned and I think its really important that we focus more on Access to Heathly foods in America. Thank you lauren for meeting with us!

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On Jan 26, Atticus, Bayo and I met with Deborah Remelli from the Ceres Community Project over google meet. Deborah works as a the Director of Development and Community Affairs at the Ceres Community Project. The Ceres Community Project’s goal is to “advocate for local, state and federal policies that increase access to healthy food for all people. ” This is really important to our project because she told us how there are a lot of people without access to healthy and sustainable food and it is becoming a big problem across America.

My personal reaction to this interview was that it had lots of information. We learned about how a lot of people needed support when it came to healthy and nutritious food. The Ceres Community Project is doing a really good job to help with that and I think that this can really help America with this issue.

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On Wednesday, Feb 2, we met with Kate Foley from the Food Trust Organization. We talked about access to healthful and nutritious food around America. The Food Trusts’ goal is to put more access to healthy and nutritious food in areas that don’t have much food. We learned a lot about how they are achieving this goal of making access to healthy and nutritious food around America. The main areas they are working in are Philidelphia and Camden. They have goals for different states and different approaches to those certain states. This is important to our project because it gives us an idea one what is happening when it comes to access to healthful and nutritious food. The Food Trust has been a thing since 1992 and is still making lots happen in America.

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Last week in school my group presented their Social Justice project presentation 101. This was our first attempt at sharing initial research with our piers. I was a little nervous to present but after I was done with my first bit of reading I got the hang of it. It was a great success. This was my reaction. “I thought it was very interesting to learn about this, It is a very complex topic. This Topic reminds me of the Part-Time Indian Book because in the book it says that the parents had to drive very far to get food and this shows how hard it is for people in food deserts to access food.”

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