Beyond Taste: A Critical Conversation About Food
On March 23 I attended a panel discussion at Babson College in Wellesley Massachusetts. The event was organized by a collective of students passionate about sustainability and the food industry. They are working to empower consumers in their future decisions about food.
Here is the list of panelists:
- Eric Becker. Chief Investment Officer for Client Yield Asset Management. Works on investments in the emerging movement for the Slow Money movement.
- Willow Bush. Co-leader of Slow Food Boston Chapter
- Lee Kane. Whole Foods Regional Forager and Eco Czar for N. Atlantic Region (great titles!)
- Alice Young. CEO of Top Sprouts. They partner with building owners to develop greenhouse systems for roof space. This provides local produce for building occupants and job creation and training for people that maintain roof green space. Also provides heating and cooling benefits for the building.
Stone Hearth Pizza (so good!) was served and Maine Root natural soda was tasty beverage on hand. Stone Hearth has 3 stores in the Boston-area. Their focus is sustainable, local, farming, and they are partnered with New England based food sources (farms, etc.) They also make a brand called Green Pastures that is sold at Whole Foods and BJs. One of their founders (Christopher Robbins) is a Babson graduate.
The moderator gave each panelist a chance to answer a particular question:
1. Willow: speaks about how creation of food affects our health
-Grass Vs grain fed, nutritional differences
-Overuse of antibiotics
-Creation of ‘super bugs’
-6000 sq mile ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico due to run off from Factory Farms!
-Encouraged audience to ask questions at your meat and fish counters. Know where your food comes from.
2. Lee: Whole Foods Market (WFM) customers are thinking "How do we get healthier?" This is to similar need that WFM saw when they first were founded in the 70s. Customers vote with their wallets and ask "How do you make every dollar spent count?" He encouraged the audience to think about how their purchase supports a food producer and the local economy that product is from. He described a food rating system that WFM uses called ANDI. WFM employees get higher discounts in the stores if they score well on health indexes used. This means they reward healthier employees greater than the non-healthy.
He mentioned book called Big Green Purse. This explains how spending power can have greatest impact. In April WFM will have a campaign called ‘Let’s reclaim our plates’ This is where purchases at WFM will be linked to the greater good, and the impact of buying local. This is for Earth Month (Lee explained that he thinks every month should be Earth Month).
Lee also informed us that around 10,000 family farms in US disappear each week!
3. Eric: He spoke about sustainable agriculture finance and the Slow Money movement. Money flows out of Slow Food and local, regional foods. “Bring Money Back Down to Earth” is the tagline for Slow Money. He mentioned a focus on a community supported grocery store and restaurant model. This is where an individual buys a share and gets meals/food for a year. This is similar to CSA model, but allows folks to invest in a local food business without having $1000s of dollars to be a large investor. He explained that there are many social investment organizations in the Boston-area. He’s working hard to build a community of individuals.
4. Alice: Her business is focused on Profit, Planet, People. Top Sprouts partners with buildings to not only develop a green roof but to make that roof a greenhouse system that provides food for local residents (goal is to make food cost the same as grocery store produce). This provides year-round food production, ROI for building owner, job creation, and training for people to work in the greenhouse. Average food travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Top Sprouts provides: end-to-end services for project, planning and design, operation management of the greenhouse, sales and distribution of produce. Plants provide benefits to building in terms of reducing heating and cooling costs by having a green roof.
I enjoyed meeting each of the panelists and I look forward to future events within the Babson community that are on similar topics!
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