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The Mindful Eating Coalition consists of:| Coming September 23: Klein Lecture: Author of "Fair Food" Dr. Oran Hesterman |
| Dr. Hesterman is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems. His experience in the philanthropic sector includes more than 15 years as program director for Food Systems at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He also played an essential role in the establishment of the Michigan Food Policy Council and has made significant contributions to the funding of healthy food and farming via his leadership of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders group. |
| The UUAA Board, at their Feb. 7th meeting, approved our request to serve only Fair Trade products whenever possible at all congregational and rental functions! |
The Mindful Eating Coalition came together in the summer of 2011 after the Ethical Eating Statement of Conscience (SOC) was adopted by our congregation and the national UUA at the spring General Assembly. The UUAA's Ethical Eating Team (EET) had served its original purpose of learning and exploring with the congregation what ethical ways of eating were in order to help write the SOC (click here to see what we did).
The EET's coordinators, Colleen Crawley and Cathy Muha, met with representatives of the well-established Locavore group: Guala Lauzzanna, Connie McGuire , Eileen Wright, Merrill Crockett. We explored the idea of gathering the food-related groups in the church under one umbrella. Then we met with Keeley Kelaski of CROP Walk, Delphine DeCaen of the Good Food Garden, and Jenny Kropf and Cathy Whitaker of the Fair Trade Coffee Project, who agreed to the concept of a coalition.
For more about the various groups, check out their websites (or descriptive paragraphs):
CROP/Hunger Walk
Good Food Garden
Locavores
UUSC Coffee Project