#Hunger

Rebecca de Souza.  Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries.  MIT Press, 2019. This must be the season for books about food banking (see last week’s Weekend Reading). Rebecca de Souza explains her book as about food justice and, more precisely, the

Graham Riches.  Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity, and the Right to Food.  Routledge, 2018. I’m not sure how I missed this one when it came out.  It’s really good. It is a tough analysis of the politics of charitable food—the institutionalized use of corporate food waste to feed

Source: Good News Network An 86-year-old woman has proved that you don’t need to buy an expensive gym membership—or even leave your house— in order to get healthy. Jessica Slaughter has lost 120 pounds simply from walking around her one-bedroom apartment. The senior from St. Louis, Missouri has

Source: Good News Network Being rocked to sleep not only helps adults and babies get a better night’s sleep – new research says that it also boosts their memory. Most people are accustomed to rocking their babies in order to send them off to dreamland, but this study suggests that the rocking

Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura Bad news, everyone: The stones are talking again. As the Associated Press reported in late August, the “hunger stones” of Děčín, Czechia—riverside rocks carved with the dates of past droughts, as well as portentous inscriptions of doom and gloom—have