A week ago, Ted Williams was another downtrodden guy panhandling along the interstate that snakes through Columbus, Ohio. Today, he’s only the most famous dude in America. And get this: He just finished doing a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese that is to air during the Fight Hunger Bowl on ESPN this Sunday. The [...]
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Ted Williams Kraft Commercial Will Premiere During Fight Hunger Bowl!
January 9th, 2011 |
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Feed the world
October 12th, 2010 |
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How hunger has changed across the developing world
TWENTY-NINE countries suffer from “alarming” levels of hunger, most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report published on Monday October 11th. The “Global Hunger Index” (GHI) gives developing countries scores based on three indicators: the proportion of people who are undernourished, the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and the child mortality rate. The worst possible score is 100, but in practice, anything over 25 is considered “alarming”. Scores under five, meanwhile, are indicative of “low hunger”. Since 1990 the overall level of the index has fallen by almost a quarter (though the data do not cover the period of the global recession beginning in 2008). Two-thirds of the 99 countries counted in 1990 have reduced their populations’ hunger levels. Kuwait, Malaysia, Turkey and Mexico have been the most successful, cutting their scores by over 60%. Those where hunger has increased include North Korea, Comoros and Congo. Congo’s GHI score fell by over 60%, the worst of any country.
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Anti-hunger campaign ad wins award
October 7th, 2010 |
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The Hunger Strike Against Hunger campaign ad has won a prestigious award, reports said. Advertising agency Leo Burnett won one of the most prestigious awards in the international festival Golden Drum 2010 in Portorož, Slovenia. The campaign entitled Hunger Strike Against Hunger, created by Leo Burnett for the B92 Fund, won a grand prix in the category The Most Creative Marketing Campaign.
Party official calls off hunger strike
July 5th, 2010 |
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Opposition SNS party deputy leader Aleksandar VuÄić called off on Monday his previously announced hunger strike. This came after the arrest of persons suspected of distributing false payment notices, that called for money to be paid to the opposition party’ account ahead of recent local elections in the eastern town of Bor.
SNS official threatens hunger strike
July 4th, 2010 |
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SNS deputy leader Aleksandar VuÄić said that he will begin a hunger strike on Monday if he does not get answers regarding the recent election scandal in Bor. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) claims that it knows who ordered the counterfeit payment slips with the SNS logo to be given to the Bor post office director before the elections, in an effort to make it look like SNS was asking citizens to contribute money to the party.
B92 wins EACA Care Awards 2010
June 24th, 2010 |
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The Hunger Strike Against Hunger campaign, launched by B92, has won the company the Grand Prix at the EACA Care Awards 2010.
Reports said this was the only award of its kind judged by members of the European Parliament.
INFINITI ANNOUNCES WORLD FIRST IN-CAR HUNGER MONITORING
April 1st, 2010 |
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It’s April 1 and there are a few April fools’ items out there. I heard one on the radio this morning about Shakespeare having a French mother. Are there any good automotive ones? I liked the Infiniti one I came across – reproduced in full below. The link at the bottom takes you to an Autocar article that summarises a few.
ROLLE, Switzerland (April 1, 2010): Infiniti, the luxury automotive brand from Japan, has announced the development of new technology aimed at reducing the dangers of driving while hungry.
The system will not only alert the driver of the need to stop for food but will also navigate the car to the nearest restaurant that suit’s the driver’s taste and pocket. To be called Gastronomi, it could become an option on the all new Infiniti M performance luxury saloon which goes on sale across Europe from September.
Gastronomi employs three of Infiniti’s current technologies: Connectiviti, Active Noise Control and Forest Air climate control. Active Noise Control donates one of its sensors mounted in the interior headlining and otherwise employed in monitoring road noise to detect the sounds of borborygmi –tummy rumbles. If a pre-determined volume of rumbling is heard, a knife and fork symbol flashes up on the Connectiviti information screen and the driver is asked whether they wish to divert for a pit-stop.
A selection of nearby restaurants can then be accessed from the Michelin Red Guide, already an integral part of Infiniti’s Connectiviti infotainment system. Once a choice is selected, the HDD navigation system selects the quickest route and if a reservation is required, a telephone number is also given for the driver to connect to via Infiniti’s standard Bluetooth telephone integration.
At this point, the Forest Air climate control system changes mode. The tropical borneol scent that is usually gently wafted throughout the cabin is replaced with the fragrance of truffle oil to ready the palette as the driver is navigated to their meal.
Gastronomi can be tailored further. There is a Fitness option which if selected first calculates the driver’s ideal weight based on the memorised driving position. The driver is then asked to input their real weight and if it is higher than the theoretical weight, Gastronomi allows for louder tummy rumbles before suggesting a pit-stop. It also works in reverse if it considers the driver needs feeding up. Another, ahem, menu asks the driver to input their favoured cuisine and amount they want to pay for a meal and suggests restaurants accordingly from the Michelin Red Guide. Categories include Bistro, Gastropub, Flushed and On Expenses.
Infiniti’s engineers have developed the technology after several years of research, and periods of starvation, in conjunction with the Narita Office for Subsistence and Health (NOSH) in Japan. The research showed the dangers of driving while hungry included reduced concentration brought on by daydreams about noodles as well as the risk of neck-strain, not to mention a frontal impact, while the driver looks into passing restaurants. The director of NOSH, I. Likecake-san, stopped between mouthfuls to say: “Gastronomi could be the most important development in [pauses to swallow] motoring since the cup holder [burps]. Is there any more rice?”
Infiniti’s programme director for Gastronomi, Yumi Teppenyaki, was unfortunately out to lunch when asked for a comment.
INFINITI ANNOUNCES WORLD FIRST IN-CAR HUNGER MONITORING
April 1st, 2010 |
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It’s April 1 and there are a few April fools’ items out there. I heard one on the radio this morning about Shakespeare having a French mother. Are there any good automotive ones? I liked the Infiniti one I came across – reproduced in full below. The link at the bottom takes you to an Autocar article that summarises a few.
ROLLE, Switzerland (April 1, 2010): Infiniti, the luxury automotive brand from Japan, has announced the development of new technology aimed at reducing the dangers of driving while hungry.
The system will not only alert the driver of the need to stop for food but will also navigate the car to the nearest restaurant that suit’s the driver’s taste and pocket. To be called Gastronomi, it could become an option on the all new Infiniti M performance luxury saloon which goes on sale across Europe from September.
Gastronomi employs three of Infiniti’s current technologies: Connectiviti, Active Noise Control and Forest Air climate control. Active Noise Control donates one of its sensors mounted in the interior headlining and otherwise employed in monitoring road noise to detect the sounds of borborygmi –tummy rumbles. If a pre-determined volume of rumbling is heard, a knife and fork symbol flashes up on the Connectiviti information screen and the driver is asked whether they wish to divert for a pit-stop.
A selection of nearby restaurants can then be accessed from the Michelin Red Guide, already an integral part of Infiniti’s Connectiviti infotainment system. Once a choice is selected, the HDD navigation system selects the quickest route and if a reservation is required, a telephone number is also given for the driver to connect to via Infiniti’s standard Bluetooth telephone integration.
At this point, the Forest Air climate control system changes mode. The tropical borneol scent that is usually gently wafted throughout the cabin is replaced with the fragrance of truffle oil to ready the palette as the driver is navigated to their meal.
Gastronomi can be tailored further. There is a Fitness option which if selected first calculates the driver’s ideal weight based on the memorised driving position. The driver is then asked to input their real weight and if it is higher than the theoretical weight, Gastronomi allows for louder tummy rumbles before suggesting a pit-stop. It also works in reverse if it considers the driver needs feeding up. Another, ahem, menu asks the driver to input their favoured cuisine and amount they want to pay for a meal and suggests restaurants accordingly from the Michelin Red Guide. Categories include Bistro, Gastropub, Flushed and On Expenses.
Infiniti’s engineers have developed the technology after several years of research, and periods of starvation, in conjunction with the Narita Office for Subsistence and Health (NOSH) in Japan. The research showed the dangers of driving while hungry included reduced concentration brought on by daydreams about noodles as well as the risk of neck-strain, not to mention a frontal impact, while the driver looks into passing restaurants. The director of NOSH, I. Likecake-san, stopped between mouthfuls to say: “Gastronomi could be the most important development in [pauses to swallow] motoring since the cup holder [burps]. Is there any more rice?”
Infiniti’s programme director for Gastronomi, Yumi Teppenyaki, was unfortunately out to lunch when asked for a comment.
Fighting poverty in emerging markets: The gloves go on
November 26th, 2009 |
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Lessons from Brazil, China and India
AT THE recent food summit in Rome, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva donned a pair of bright-red boxing gloves labelled “Hunger Free” and waved to the cameras. They were his prize—if that is the right term—for Brazil’s success in topping a league table drawn up by ActionAid, a British charity, of countries that have done most to reduce hunger*. The occasion was a stunt, of course, but had a serious purpose: to show that even the poorest places can mitigate poverty and hunger. (Brazil is not in that category, but Ghana, Vietnam and Malawi—which came third, fourth and fifth—are.)
ActionAid’s list was inevitably influenced by the sort of things that NGOs love: social-protection programmes, constitutional and legal guarantees against poverty, the rejection of free markets. But now comes a more rigorous assessment of poverty-reduction in Brazil, China and India by Martin Ravallion, the director of the World Bank’s Development Research Group†. It also suggests that hunger is not simply something that growth will take care of. Mr Ravallion shows that the performance of the giants varies a lot more than their growth. And he too regards Brazil’s performance as exceptional. …
Help WSP Fight Hunger Bring Food Item to 11/25 Show
November 17th, 2009 |
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HELP FIGHT HUNGER ON NOVEMBER 25, THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING
BRING IN A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM TO THE WIDESPREAD PANIC CONCERT
AT THE MURAT THEATRE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED TOUR POSTER
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Help Widespread Panic fight hunger by brining a non-perishable food item to their show on the night before Thanksgiving, November 25, at The Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, IN and enter for your chance to win an autographed poster by the band.
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc. is helping make this happen. The Food Bank was founded in a three-and-a-half-car garage in 1980. Ever since, they have grown as hunger has grown — fighting the crisis in central Indiana every step of the way.
Their mission is simple and direct: To end hunger by engaging individuals and communities to provide food for people in need. Ultimately, Gleaners reaches thousands of people who need assistance. They are the working poor, the unemployed, single parents and the elderly. They are the homeless, the disabled, the mentally ill. They
are battered women, victims of disaster and helpless children. They are families, friends and neighbors throughout Indiana.
You can also enter to win a pair of tickets and sound check passes here!
Widespread Panic is on tour now; dates available here.
Anti-hunger campaign declared success
October 17th, 2009 |
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A charity hunger strike that gained the support of 676,280 people from all over 80 countries ended on midnight last night. The campaign, dubbed “Hunger Strike Against Hunger”, was organized on World Food Day, and was joined in Serbia by 176,280 people, and over 400 companies and organizations.
Serbia to go on charity hunger strike Friday
October 16th, 2009 |
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500,000 people will go on hunger strike today in a campaign organized by B92 to highlight the plight of 10% of Serbia’s population, who go hungry every day. Today is World Food Day. To mark the event over half a million people and around 300 companies will present a united front with the haves-not in a B92 campaign called “Hunger Strike against Hungerâ€.
Bill Gates Announces $120M in Grants to Fight African Hunger
October 15th, 2009 |
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Bill Gates announces during a keynote address at Iowa’s World Food Prize event that the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $120 million to funding bioengineered crop development and small-farmer policies in Africa. Gates also suggests that higher crop yields from biotechnology could be threatened by overly ideological environmentalism.
– Bill Gates announced during an Oct. 15 keynote address at the World Food
Prize event in Des Moines, Iowa,
that an quot;ideological wedge quot; of environmentalism was hurting the fight
against hunger in Africa. The World Food Prize, according to its
Website, is an international award designed t…
Anti-hunger campaign gains support
October 10th, 2009 |
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The Hunger Strike Against Hunger campaign is receiving support from 56 countries worldwide, reports are saying. The campaign calls on its participants to “refrain from food” on October 16, World Food Day, in a show of solidarity with those suffering from hunger.
Strikers fall ill in southern town
October 5th, 2009 |
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On Monday, doctors assisted five workers who have been on a hunger strike for six days in Kuršumlija, protesting unpaid wages. Due to high blood pressure, heart problems and other health concerns cause by six days of the hunger strike, three workers were taken to the hospital, while one was examined by doctors and allowed to stay with the fellow strikers.
B92 joins campaigns to combat hunger
October 5th, 2009 |
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B92 is supporting the “Hunger Strike Against Hunger†campaign with all its capacities, along with the ambitious and important “Food for All†program. B92 Editor-in-Chief Veran Matić said that the Serbian society was not socially emancipated enough and humane enough when it was dealing with lesser problems than the ones citizens are faced with now.
Food in the life of Nelson Mandela
July 20th, 2009 |
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The most elementary social, economic and emotional truths are revealed in the ways that we we cook, eat and serve food. So why not ask those who changed the world what they were eating while they did it?
Recipes
Mrs Vervoed’s koeksisters
George Bizos’s oregano and lemon lamb
Farida Omar’s chicken curry
Xoliswa Ndoyiya’s umphokoqo
In his autobiography Nelson Mandela declared that:
“I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free. Free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies [corn] under the stars … It was only when I learnt that my boyhood freedom was an illusion … that I began to hunger for it.”
Only the truly food obsessed would read such a statement and consider the stomach from whence it came, but I did and the result is a gastro-political biography entitled Hunger for Freedom, the story of food in the life of Nelson Mandela.
There are those who might argue that such an evaluation is trivial or even tasteless, but there is nothing innately frivolous or disrespectful about food. We all reveal our most elementary social, economic and emotional truths in the ways that we cook, eat and serve food. So why not ask those who changed the world what they were eating while they did it?
Hunger for Freedom traces Nelson Mandela’s journey in food reminiscences and recipes from the corn grinding stone of his Mvezo birthplace and simple dishes like umphokoqo through wedding cakes, prison hunger strikes and presidential banquets into a retirement deliciously infused with the Mozambican seafood dishes of his third wife Graça Machel.
In the course of the research for my book I tracked down the former South African President’s schoolboy contemporaries who put on a traditional Xhosa rural feast for me. I shared biscuits and memories of teenage dinner dates with his first girlfriend. I made his favourite spaghetti recipe with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as she told of a great love lost and thwarted. I wept through ex-prisoners’ descriptions of Robben Island prison rations and roared with laughter at his grandchildren’s tales of the great man’s fondness for Frosties breakfast cereal.
There were Christmas cakes with former jailers and crab curries with comrades past. I was very pregnant throughout much of the research process and to hear Nelson Mandela reminisce about chicken recipes (and offer to deliver the baby) was a huge privilege and an absolute joy.
Looking at Nelson Mandela’s personal and political history from the vantage point of the kitchen offered up hitherto unrecorded insights into a man and the society in which he came of age. In apartheid South Africa every dish was served against a backdrop of racial oppression. In the 1950s parties given by anti-apartheid activists saw drinks served in very short tots so as to ensure that if the police raided the event black people would not be found engaged in the illegal act of consuming alcohol.
The guest list for Nelson Mandela’s 1958 wedding to Winnie Madikizela was profoundly curtailed by the fact that almost every significant political activist was banned, jailed or in exile. The racially discriminatory food conditions for prisoners on Robben Island and the prisoners’ fights to improve their diet mirrored those of their broader struggle.
And yet Nelson Mandela’s food preferences past and present reveal the social and political significance of a multi-racial anti-apartheid alliance in which Thayanagee Pillay made coffee for prisoners awaiting trial, Farida Omar smuggled chicken curry to Nelson Mandela at Pollsmoor Prison, George Bizos cooked Greek lamb on a spit to celebrate great victories and Ray Harmel served chopped liver in times of trouble.
The history of South Africa’s transition to democracy can be read on a plate from Mandela’s first meal of freedom (Lillian Ngoboza’s hearty casserole followed by rum and raisin ice-cream at Bishop Tutu’s house) through the gastro-reconciliation of syrup-drenched koeksister with the widow of apartheid architect HF Vervoed in the whites only enclave of Orania. Similarly, Nelson Mandela’s personal transition from President to pensioner can be tasted in his housekeeper Xoliswa Ndoyiya’s chutney chicken recipe and Graça Machel’s caranguejo recheado (stuffed crabs).
Mandela media coverage has a somewhat saccharine tendency to deify South Africa’s most famous son. Asking what he had for lunch restores humanity to a living legend. It also recognizes that he was not acting alone but rather as part of a social and political team. Besides, the man himself has always been justifiably proud of his edible exploits. On August 31 1970 Madiba wrote to his wife Winnie from Robben Island prison:
“How I long for amasi (traditional South African fermented milk), thick and sour! You know darling there is one respect in which I dwarf all my contemporaries or at least about which I can confidently claim to be second to none – healthy appetite.”
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Christina Aguilera World Hunger Relief Spokesperson
July 17th, 2009 |
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Petite powerhouse Christina Aguilera has accepted the role of international spokesperson for the World Hunger Relief organization.
The “Fighter” hitmaker took to the street of Hollywood on Wednesday to shoot a public service announcment she hopes will raise awareness about the cause.
“It’s unacceptable a child dies every six seconds somewhere around the world [...]
Aguilera becomes World Hunger Relief organisation’s spokesperson
July 17th, 2009 |
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Christina Aguilera has taken up a new role of the international spokesperson for the World Hunger Relief Organisation.
The singer will address the plight of millions of children who face death by starvation every year, as part of her job.
“It’’s unacceptable a child dies every six seconds somewhere around the world from hunger,†Contactmusic quoted [...]