Date & Room Location:
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Room assignment: Multi-purpose Room
Low-income neighborhoods, particularly in communities of color, experience dramatically disproportionate rates of diabetes and other diet-related diseases. In recent years, fast food corporations have increasingly targeted people of color communities, accelerating the problem. While the bulk of profits for these restaurants flows out of poor communities and into the pockets of executives in far-off, suburban communities, the terrible personal and economic cost of these diseases is left to be borne by neighborhoods already struggling with many other issues.
People in cities across the country are organizing to stop this cycle, and give the good food movement more room to grow. Come discuss the role of the industry in both our global food system and in your own community, learn what’s already in progress in communities from Boston to Los Angeles, and help build the national discussion of how folks working on local food and urban empowerment can craft solutions to this challenge in their own communities.
Click here for Deborah Lapidas's Bio.
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