Podcasts about big hunger

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On September 28, for the first time in 50 years, the White House held a Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health. This year's conference comes as millions of families across the country struggle to access high-quality calories. In 2021 alone, 13.5 million households were food insecure, and in June of 2022, more than 24 million Americans reported they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat during the week. Over the next few weeks, we'll be speaking with food leaders of different types to understand America's relationship with food and the resulting impact on all of us, and particularly our most vulnerable communities, in a special series called “Catalysts for Change: Ingredients for Success.” In the last episode, Jill was joined by Representative Jim McGovern, who represents District 2 in Massachusetts and serves as Co-Chair of the House Hunger Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this second episode, Jill is joined by Andy Fisher, an anti-hunger activist and author of “Big Hunger,” to talk about the food industry, the anti-hunger movement, and the history of food access in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andy Fisher is the Executive Director of the Ecological Farming Association and has been a leading force for social justice in the anti-hunger and food movements in the U.S. since the mid 1990s. He co-founded and led the Community Food Security Coalition for over 17 years and published his first book “ Big Hunger, The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups” in 2017. Tune in to learn more about: His upbringing in Ohio; How hunger/food insecurity is defined; Food banks are wealthier now compared to before of the pandemic; His book “ Big Hunger, The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups”; How Smithfield donates thousands of pounds of meat to food banks while polluting the environment with their CAFOs; The influence of executives in the food industry that are also sitting on the board of the food banks; Why food banks are not allowed in Scotland and their new model to move away from them. To learn more about Andy go to https://www.bighunger.org/.

The pandemic has dramatically increased the number of people seeking food assistance. Yet food charity doesn't solve hunger and the inequality that causes it. We talk with Andrew Fisher, former head of the national Community Food Security Coalition and author of Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-hunger Groups. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network (radio version)

The pandemic has dramatically increased the number of people seeking food assistance. Yet food charity doesn't solve hunger and the inequality that causes it. We talk with Andrew Fisher, former head of the national Community Food Security Coalition and author of Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-hunger Groups. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network (podcast version)

Today's meditation is inspired by Dr. Tererai Trent's book ‘The Awakened Women' where she says the way to find your ‘Big Hunger' is to know what breaks your heart.  Your morning mantra: What breaks my heart? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andy Fisher’s book, Big Hunger, asks tough questions about charity and how we can do the most good.

Andy Fisher’s book, Big Hunger, asks tough questions about charity and how we can do the most good.

Over his career, Andy has represented a wide variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. A veteran of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, Andy especially enjoys working with businesses owned by veterans, military spouses, active duty service members, and others focused on the military community. These clients not only do business in a wide variety of industries, they are also located all over the world. 

Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss reads about anxiety, foodie books, Disney read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, and You Owe Me a Murder by Eileen Cook. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher.   Questions 1. Hi! So, up until recently I hadn’t thought about what “type” of books I like most. The more I read, the more I find myself getting emotionally sucked into books about a dark or otherwise serious subject matter told from a child’s/teen/young person’s point of view. Examples would be Room, and To Kill A Mockingbird. I love “reading between the lines” and picking up on subtle hints and clues to what’s going on in the story, rather than outright descriptions told from an adult or omniscient narrator. I’m a mental health therapist and I work predominantly with teenagers who have been through some sort of, so it’s kind of obvious where my pull towards these books comes from. The book doesn’t have to be about major traumatic events (abuse, neglect, rape, etc), just serious subject matter that a young person is dealing with and trying to interpret and work through. Thank you so much!!!! -Alissa   2. I am looking for African-American, Bi-sexual, and women with disabilities, literature. I love fiction, some fantasy some siFi, romantic suspense, and both mysteries and thrillers. oh and classic literature, and women’s fiction. Some Young Adult is okay. No Paranormal, or aliens having human babies, no cloning, and weird stories. yuck! I am blind so the books must be available in an accessible format. -Melissa   3. Hello. I work at a nonprofit hunger relief organization and am looking for recommendations for our staff book club. Specifically, I am hoping you have some ideas for a graphic novel or graphic nonfiction book about any of the following topics, ideally in combination: food, nutrition, nonprofits, social justice, equity, or inclusion. We have read two books so far, Big Hunger and Behind the Kitchen Door, and have a good list of future options, but I thought it might be nice to try something less wordy at some point. Must be appropriate for discussion in a work setting. Can be something we could read all at once or in installments. Thank you for the tips and for the amazing show! -Leah R   4. I love watching documentaries (my favorite film genre) and reading non fiction as well as science fiction. I recently read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and loved them both. Currently I am reading Going Clear by Lawrence Wright and loving it as well. (Side note, if you haven’t seen the HBO documentary made from the book you are truly missing out) I am worried I wouldn’t be able to find any more weird non fiction & science fiction to read once I am done with Going Clear. Any suggestions would be super helpful. -Kiirah   5. Hi, I’m always on the lookout for great book recommendations for my amazing niece. She loves YA fantasy (Throne of Glass is one of her favorite series) and Disney. Her favorite princess is Mulan, so she really likes strong female characters. She’s African American, so I would love to find a book for her featuring a non-white protagonist, since they are underrepresented in fiction and thus hard to come by. Any help you can give me is wonderful. I hate to give her gift cards for her birthday or Christmas because it feels so impersonal to me. Thanks, -Heather   6. So I need help trying to find books similar to my favorites. I LOVE Marcus Zusak, author of “I Am the Messenger” and “The Book Thief”. I love the writing style, the quip literary remarks, the funny quotes and how the actual physical writing is different (fonts, margins, etc.). I also enjoy how closely I become connected to the characters. They are ones I won’t soon forget. They are both books I’ve read and recommend to everyone and now I’m looking for other books that are as similar to him as possible. -Dallas   7. Hello! I was recently diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and I’m hoping you can recommend some books that have characters with that diagnosis or something similar. I am not picky whether it’s YA, or fantasy, or whatever, but I do tend to lean more towards YA. A memoir would be particularly interesting. Thank you! -Kino   Books Discussed The Vela S1 by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, SL Huang, and Rivers Solomon The Handmaid’s Tale Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and illustrated by Renee Nault Kidlit These Days podcast All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert So Lucky by Nicola Griffith Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri Meal by Blue Dellaquanti, illustrated by Soleil Ho (rec’d by Elisa) Comic Books With Recipes post Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Themby Jennifer Wright The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton The Watch That Ends The Night by Allan Wolfe Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Final Draft by Riley Redgate Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

In our final installment of our Big and Bold Series, Pastor Wade gives a moving word that challenges each person to consider their hunger for the Lord. Are you allowing worldly things to satiate and satisfy your hunger? How hungry are you for the things of the Spirit of God? Let this word stir your heart to truly long for God's Spirit and yearn for His Word. Let HIM give you the Spirit without limit!

In our final installment of our Big and Bold Series, Pastor Wade gives a moving word that challenges each person to consider their hunger for the Lord. Are you allowing worldly things to satiate and satisfy your hunger? How hungry are you for the things of the Spirit of God? Let this word stir your heart to truly long for God's Spirit and yearn for His Word. Let HIM give you the Spirit without limit!

In our final installment of our Big and Bold Series, Pastor Wade gives a moving word that challenges each person to consider their hunger for the Lord. Are you allowing worldly things to satiate and satisfy your hunger? How hungry are you for the things of the Spirit of God? Let this word stir your heart to truly long for God's Spirit and yearn for His Word. Let HIM give you the Spirit without limit!

In our final installment of our Big and Bold Series, Pastor Wade gives a moving word that challenges each person to consider their hunger for the Lord. Are you allowing worldly things to satiate and satisfy your hunger? How hungry are you for the things of the Spirit of God? Let this word stir your heart to truly long for God's Spirit and yearn for His Word. Let HIM give you the Spirit without limit!

Did you know that approximately 12% of the U.S. population is food insecure, and that many rely on charity to survive?  Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Andy Fisher, community food security advocate, and author of “Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups.” Fisher explores the charity model and the “big business” of hunger relief in the United States. He offers visionary, alternative models for sustainable solutions to food insecurity which  minimize food waste, and promote job creation and public health. Related website:  https://www.bighunger.org/

This week, we explore the political side of hunger. Anti-hunger activist Andrew Fisher tells the story of his book "Big Hunger." Then, "Modern Hungers" author and historian Alice Weinreb explores the political uses of hunger in 20th Century Germany. Open Stacks is the official podcast of the Seminary Co-operative Bookstores. This episode was produced by Kit Brennen.  

A high school basketball team organizes a canned food drive. A church volunteer group restocks the local pantry with donations from Walmart. Both examples are seemingly positive portrayals of American civic engagement… So what’s wrong with this picture?Playing for Team Human today is Andy Fisher, author of Big Hunger: the Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups. In the book, Fisher tackles the big question of why chronic hunger and food insecurity persist despite the efforts of food banks, pantries, and charity. Fisher’s suggests that our effort to solve hunger with charity is missing a crucial component that would transform stopgap measures into long-term solutions. Join Douglas and Andy as they take a critical look at the what Fisher calls the “non-profit industrial complex," while looking toward a future where social equity figures into the equation of ending hunger in America. Purchase Big Hunger from your favorite local book seller or at bighhunger.org.Special thanks to Professor Mara Einstein of the Media Studies department at Queens College for introducing us to Andy's work and inviting him to the Basement Media Squat where we tape Team Human.Today’s show features intro and outro music by Fugazi, thanks to Dischord Records for sharing. In the middle you heard a listener original by Josh Sitron and the Team Human band, mixed with a track from Team Human Ep. 31 guest R.U. Sirius.If you’d like to sustain this show, you can support us via Patreon. Go to https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman to subscribe at the level that feels right for you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week my guests discuss big problems regarding food. How can we work toward healthy food and enough food for everyone? Maryn McKenna is a journalist who writes about science, food, and disease. Like Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. But that's not the end of it. We’ve been pumping antibiotics into chicken for a good long time. They have come home to roost. We can’t make antibiotics faster than evolution. Ms. McKenna and I talk Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. I also speak with Andrew Fisher of Portland. He is an activist in the anti-hunger field. For twenty-five years he has worked building coalitions to fight for better food and nutrition laws. He is blowing the whistle. Hunger is big business. Andrew is the author of Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups. Finally, I speak with John Teton, author of the International Food Security Treaty (www.treaty.org). This treaty is an international enforceable law requiring all nations to guarantee food to everyone in their borders and not use hunger as a weapon. That would end the wars.

Every year, billions are spent “fighting hunger,” but what about organizing to end it? Fisher takes you down the rabbit hole of the hunger industrial complex.

Show Notes are at www.bdnow.org More info about this book and Andrew Fisher are at www.bighunger.org   Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty-five years, as the executive director of national and local food groups, and as a researcher, organizer, policy advocate, and coalition builder. He has led successful efforts to gain passage of multiple pieces of federal food and nutrition legislation. Chronic hunger and food insecurity trends across the U.S. have not changed, despite the rise of charity. Food banks and food pantries were meant to be a stopgap measure, but manufacturing jobs never came back, recession followed, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In 1994, Andy Fisher co-founded and led the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC), a first of its kind national alliance of hundreds of groups working on urban food access and local food. Fisher led CFSC as Executive Director for 15 years, creating and gaining momentum for the concept of community food security while building the food movement as a whole. He successfully led advocacy efforts and passage of crucial federal nutrition legislation to address food security, including the establishment of the Community Food Projects and Farm to School grants. Fisher is an expert on a variety of food system topics and tactics, including food policy councils, community food assessments, healthy corner stores, coalition building, and farm to cafeteria programs. Fisher is an activist, NGO consultant, and an adjunct teacher at Portland University in Oregon. His book, Big Hunger, is the launch for a new vision for how to untangle corporate interests from food banks and the anti-hunger movement. The 2016 election reminded us of the depth of economic insecurity across America, and of the political implications that come from ignoring this populist angst. The decline of Rust Belt communities since the 1980s has been paralleled by the rapid growth of food banks. Instead of challenging the government and corporations to provide living wages and good jobs, to support unions and oppose globalization, the anti-hunger movement has instead built alliances with Walmart, Tyson, and Monsanto, among other socially irresponsible companies. Big Hunger reveals the damage caused by this hunger-industrial complex, and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement to eliminate hunger through a focus on health, economic justice and local economies.