What your role is in broadening the food conversation? If you’re a producer, what can you do to help RDs share the good news of YOUR food with OUR community? If you’re a RD, how can you help producers? A dietitian shares her experience of learning about where food originates.
A challenge to dream bigger for agriculture and food conversations to celebrate the AgChat Foundation’s second anniversary. Michele shares words that have inspired her for years. “Because with an idea, determination, and the right tools, you can do great things. Let your instincts, your intellect and your heart guide you…”
What is our acceptance of junk journalism and rejection of science leading us toward? Michele highlights a journalist’s recent meat scare piece as a thinly veiled opinion piece as an example of changing journalistic standards and asks people to look for expert opinions such as Registered Dietitians, food producers & processors and scientists when making food choices.
Michele challenges those in agriculture to go beyond National Ag Week’s celebration by talking to five people outside of the food & farming business. Relate to people on their playing field – not your corn field – if you really want to go beyond the choir.
A structural engineer contrasts the trust placed in engineering with that which is given to farming. Why do people question the way that farmers grow their food but not the way the engineers design their buildings or other infrastructure? Interesting thoughts resulting from the study showing that people trust farmers, but not farming.
Sarah Bedgar Wilson and Marie Bowers are leaders for agriculture that focus on the “we” factor instead of getting hung up on ego, politics and bright shiny objects. Michele writes about how they made the leap to “we” and the resulting impact they’ve had in bringing others to the cause of agriculture.
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