Food Day is a nationwide celebration & movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Omaha joins the movement!
Join us for Food Day in a national effort to encourage Americans to “Eat Real." Food Day's national priorities address overarching concerns within the food system and provide common ground for building the food movement. Food Day aims to:
-Promote safer, healthier diets
-Support sustainable and organic farms
-Reduce hunger
-Reform factory farms to protect the environment and animals
-Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers
In partnership with The Reader, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, the Omaha Farmers Market at the Old Market.
At Omaha's Food Day event, in addition to the Farmers Market, local food-related organizations and companies will provide children’s activities, cooking demonstrations and more to in order to engage with attendees about how to support sustainable farming and promote safe, healthy foods.
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement towards healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Think of it as an Earth Day for food!
Food Day's goals are to raise awareness about food issues among broader public, strengthen and unify the food movement, and improve our nation's food policies.
Food Day Priorities:
- Promote safer, healthier diets
- Support sustainable and organic farms
- Reduce hunger
- Reform factory farms to protect the environment & animals
- Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers
Food Day was created by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. Its national partners include the American Public Health Association, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Farmers Market Coalition, among others.
