EarthSave And Sacramento Food Bank To Implement Plant-based Intervention
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A stunning new program is coming to Sacramento’s Food Bank starting in August. A 60-day program, coordinated by John Robbins’ EarthSave, will teach underprivileged people about how plant-based nutrition can improve their health and will provide fresh produce (a rarity in food banks) and whole grains to the participants. John McDougall, Rick Esselstyn, Jeff Novick, and other plant-based food experts will participate in Meals for Health, and a major university will publish a study on the results afterwards.
What better way to spread the message than to work with those whose health has deteriorated primarily because of the food they (are essentially forced to) eat, and to document the changes. The program reminds me a bit of the Montessori method, which was created by Maria Montessori for the poorest students in the poorest slums in Italy, and which then raised those students to levels above their more privileged contemporaries. It will be exciting to watch this progress.
EarthSave intends to expand the program nationally after this trial period.
Watch the video and read more about it at the EarthSave website. You can also contribute to this great effort there.
This is AWESOME news!!! What an exciting program, I hope people will be inspired to progress with this idea in their own communities. Food banks all over have been low on food to give out, as more people have been adversely affected by the downturned economy. This coming May 8th the postal service is collecting non-perishable items for food banks ~ it’s as easy as leaving a bag of dried, packaged organic beans & grains, canned items, etc. in your mailbox. But FRESH PRODUCE is so vital. If we all grew an extra row of produce in our gardens and shared them with our local food banks, we could have a positive impact on others in a very real, yet inexpensive way.
I couldn’t agree more! I did not get a notice of the postal service’s pickup (maybe it’s in my mailbox now) so I’ll put that in my calendar to remember. I always have cans or bags of beans and rice and so on that I can offer. Thanks for that reminder.