Building a Healthier Chicago’s Eat Real Chicago! initiative is proud to present this year’s event...
Chicago Food Day
Building a Healthier Chicago’s Eat Real Chicago! initiative wants to help by hosting this year's event, Chicago Food Day, aimed at promoting nutrition education, answering your questions about eating healthy, sustainable, and affordable food, all while empowering you to make better decisions for your health, your community, and the plants and animals that make our meals possible.
Held this year on Thursday 22nd of October, bring us your questions, and through exciting speakers, dynamic workshops, and dedicated vendors, we will help find the answers on how to help you eat real!
Held this year on Thursday 22nd of October, bring us your questions, and through exciting speakers, dynamic workshops, and dedicated vendors, we will help find the answers on how to help you eat real!
Who We Are
Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24.
Food Day aims to help people Eat Real. That means cutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods, and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and sustainably raised protein. Food Day envisions shorter lines at fast-food drive-throughs—and bigger crowds at farmers markets.
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This annual event involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.
With Food Day, we can celebrate our food system when it works and fix it when it’s broken. Across the country, more than 4,700 events took place in 2013 and 3,200 in 2012, from community festivals in Denver, Savannah, and New York City, to a national conference in Washington, DC, to thousands of school activities in Portland, Minneapolis, and elsewhere.
Eating Real
The typical American diet is contributing to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems. Those problems cost Americans more than $ 150 billion per year. Plus, a meat-heavy diet takes a terrible toll on the environment.
Eating Real can save your own health and put our food system on a more humane, sustainable path. With America’s resources, there’s no excuse for hunger, low wages for food and farm workers, or inhumane conditions for farm animals.
Eating Real can save your own health and put our food system on a more humane, sustainable path. With America’s resources, there’s no excuse for hunger, low wages for food and farm workers, or inhumane conditions for farm animals.
How Can You Help
The most important ingredient in Food Day is you! Use October 24 to start—or celebrate—eating a healthier diet and putting your family’s diet on track. Food Day is not just a day; it’s a year-long catalyst for healthier diets and a better food system. Let’s use this energy to make a meaningful and long-lasting difference!
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Photo Credit: Philip Greenberg
Sign up for our email updates, and join the conversation about Food Day issues on Facebook,Twitter, and Pinterest.
Photo Credit: Philip Greenberg