Colin Kaepernick and Impossible Foods are teaming up to feed 1 million people. Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp is fighting for social justice across the board. The collaboration started in San Francisco with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank and Al Pastor Papi food truck.
If we didn’t know it before — or had forgotten — the escalating pandemic and its widening economic ripple effects are hammering home the reality that our world is full of risk and uncertainty. Preparedness is paramount.
There is a forgotten recipe that makes food from “thin air.” A microbial recipe was created to feed astronauts on long space missions that could help those here on earth who don’t have access to food.
Sometimes, life’s harsher realities affect the hearts and minds of the young more than others who find the stories of hunger in children further from their own lives. Felix Byam Shaw’s compassion developed for other young boys when he found out they did not have necessary comforts of life — such as the regular meals that some of us take for granted. Renault explains: “In particular, after he played in a football match and discovered that none of the opposing team of 10-year-old boys from South London had anything to eat that day.”
Owing to the realities accompanying climate change — increasing levels of drought, flooding, extreme weather, and thus crop losses — the global risk of hunger and child malnutrition could rise by around 20% by the year 2050, according to a new report from the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Irish Potato Famine shows that environmental disasters don’t happen in a vacuum. The famine was the product of an unjust economic system, and its impact could be felt oceans away.
