[cgfc] CGFC's Weekly Bytes, Vol.1, #6

[Lisa BK]

GREETINGS!

Welcome to Common Ground Food Co-op's weekly (for now) e-newsletter! You're 
getting this 
missive because you're a member of Common Ground who's also signed up to be 
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email 
commongroundfoodcoop at gmail.com. A paper version is posted on the bulletin 
board in the 
store.

Every week, via this transmission, members are provided with store 
updates/news, links to 
relevant news items/political actions, and other bits and pieces worthy of 
mention. If you 
have anything of a similar bent you think members should know about, please 
email links to 
commongroundfoodcoop at gmail.com. Thanks!



STORE/LOCAL NEWS:

****Quick heads up! CGFC will be participating in the Students for 
Environmental Concerns' Enviromental Action Night. Come check it out 
tomorrow night - Thursday, September 1, at the Y on Wright Street, starting 
at 6 PM. Food, drink, raffle, good conversation!

****CGFC will be participating in the Volunteer Fair at the U of I on 
Friday, September 9 
from 10 AM - 2 PM. PLease contact Lisa at the email address above if you're 
interested 
in representing CGFC.

****Four More Urbana Farmers' Markets left for us! CGFC's scheduled to 
appear every Saturday in September. If you're interested in taking a shift 
at our centrally-located/often stopped-at booth, please email Lisa at the 
address above. Thanks!

****In Case You Missed it #1: "The Co-op's delivery schedule is changing 
with our primary 
grocery supplier, United Natural Foods. We will be getting our deliveries 
Monday
and Thursday mornings. None of our current workers who help unload the 
trucks can make it at 
those times and United is unwilling to give us a different delivery 
schedule." Who out there 
can step up for some early morning exercise AND worker hours? Let Molly know 
- you can reach her at the store by calling 352-3347.

****In case you missed it #2: "I have a catalog for European Imports, which 
is a speciality 
cheese importer out of Chicago. They supply Art Mart and World Harvest. Take 
a look at it and 
flag anything you find interesting. They have a pretty high minimum order 
($1500) so I'm 
trying to determine if there's enough we could get from them. They also have 
olives (yum!) 
and lots of grocery stuff, too. Check it out and let me know what you 
think." So. Check it 
out and let her know what you think! You can leave a comment at the CGFC 
Product Blog - go 
to www.cgfcproducts.blogspot.com <http://www.cgfcproducts.blogspot.com> or 
contact her at the store.

****New and improved website is on the way, but totally rad splash page is 
up at www.commongroundcoop.org <http://www.commongroundcoop.org> with 
updated hours and links to the CGFC Livejournal community and CGFC email 
list. Tell your friends! 



EVENTS OF INTEREST:

****More details to follow both in the store and in next week's newsletter, 
but we're so excited about this that it bears mentioning right now:

Farming in other countries: A West African Perspective

Farm and trade policies in the United States and European Union are creating 
hardships for family farmers across the world. In particular, agricultural 
subsidies hamper efforts to reduce poverty in poor countries, while 
undermining rural life here in the US. Mr. Soloba Mady Keïta, a cotton 
producer from Mali will be touring Illinois to speak about his life as a 
farmer in West Africa. Come find out how US policies can be changed to help 
people everywhere live in dignity, and what you can do to help. 

WHEN: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
WHERE: Common Ground Food Co-op
TIME: 6-8 pm

Exact location TBA; refreshments will be provided. We're working with Oxfam! 
More details soon!

****The Global Food Court: Fast Food, Slow Food, Imperial Food

Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
September 8, 2005
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Feffer
Independent journalist and author of North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Policy 
and
the Korean Peninsula (2003)

The best place to experience the new world order of food is your local food
court. Behind the apparent diversity of choices and international flavors 
lies
a uniform model of production, distribution, and consumption that is global 
in
scope and bears some important resemblances to an older imperial model of 
food
and power. To illustrate this new world order of food, John Feffer will take
you from his own local food court to the food court at the Ramen museum in
Yokohama. He will also trace the impact of global power on food from Alexis
Soyer's global food emporium at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London in 
1851
to today's mysterious and ubiquitous "bourbon chicken," with detours along 
the
way to discuss potatoes, quinine, Coca-Cola and a host of other menu items.

John Feffer's visit is cosponsored by ACES Global Connect and the Korea
Workshop.




INFO OF INTEREST:

****This young lady has got it going on where local food is concerned:

http://grist.org/comments/interactivist/2005/08/29/hill/?source=daily


****"When a German court ordered Monsanto to make public a controversial 
90-day rat study on June 20, 2005, the data upheld claims by prominent 
scientists who said that animals fed the genetically modified (GM) corn 
developed extensive health effects in the blood, kidneys and liver and that 
humans eating the corn might be at risk."

Get the rest of the article here:

http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/Genetically_Modified_Corn_Study_Reveals_Health_Damage_and_Cover-up.shtml



****Interesting study regarding the relationship between fast food joints 
and public schools:

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/9/1575


****This conference at Drake University in September looks fascinating 
(well, if you're into state and local food policy-type stuff):


http://www.statefoodpolicy.org/natwkshp05prog.htm


****Fresh gets invited to the "cool" table:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/dining/24school.html (requires 
registration; go to www.bugmenot.com <http://www.bugmenot.com> to get logins 
and passwords and save your email!)



Please feel free to forward these links to people you think might benefit 
from such knowledge.

Thanks and look for #7 same time (more or less) next week!



::compiled by Outreach Co-coordinator Lisa Bralts-Kelly::
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