The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) initiated National Food Day. The nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food is a grassroots campaign for better food policies. The celebration was started in 1975.
Join the nationwide campaign for delicious, healthy, and affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way.
The goals of National Food Day are:
- Reduce obesity and diet-related diseases by promoting healthy diets
- Support sustainable family farms
- Expand access to healthy food
- Protect the environment and farm animals
- Raise awareness of junk food marketing to children
- Obtain fair pay and safe conditions for food and farm workers
GET INVOLVED
- Have a dinner with friends and neighbors celebrating locally grown ingredients
- Encourage cooking classes, a vegetable garden, and healthier, tastier cafeteria food in your child’s school
- Organize food-policy debates, lectures, and rallies on your college campus—discuss agricultural subsidies, animal welfare, and your college’s own food policies
- Work with your health department to develop a city-wide food policy
- Ask your city council or mayor to expand farmers markets and urban gardens, bring supermarkets to underserved neighborhoods, or mount a healthy-eating campaign
- Create an event tailored to publicize your community’s food problems
HOW TO GET STARTED
We can start by changing our own diets. That means more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and moderate amounts of sustainable seafood and low-fat animal products; choose local and organic when you can. It also means cutting back significantly on junk foods.
Change also must come in the form of new public policies aimed at promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing subsidies to agribusiness, and campaigns to promote healthy diets and reduce the consumption of soft drinks and corn-fed beef. Measures are needed to safeguard the environment, farm workers, animals, and the quality of life in rural America.
