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Hospitals Look to Sustainable Meats
FarmPlate Jul 20, 2010 Chicago 1 comments
Approximately 300 hospitals across the country have pledged to improve the quality of food served in their institutions by incorporating healthy, sustainable foods into their patients' diets, reports the Chicago Tribune. Fearing drug-resistant pathogens, medical professionals have started advocating for the use of antibiotic-free meats in hospitals. Antibiotics that are used to treat people, like penicillin and tetracycline, are also given to healthy animals to speed their growth and to compensate for tightly packed living conditions, which can increase the spread of disease. Because increased exposure to antibiotics can lessen their effectiveness against disease, some hospitals,...
Time 100's Urban Farm Pioneer
FarmPlate May 11, 2010 Chicago 0 comments
Every year Time Magazine names the Time 100, a list of influential people that the publication has honored as "the people who most affect our world." This year, alongside household names like Lady Gaga, Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey was Will Allen, a legendary urban farmer whose mantra is "Grow. Bloom. Thrive." Allen, a former Miami Hurricanes basketball star, founded the non-profit program Growing Power in 1993. Allen designed a program that offered teens, often minorities and immigrants, an opportunity to work on his two-acre farm space in a low-income area in urban Milwaukee, renovating greenhouses to grow food for the community. Allen believes “Everybody, regardless of...