November 7, 2022

Organizations Fighting World Hunger

U.S. Agency for International Development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Alliance for the Future of Food, World Bank, United Nation’s World Food Program

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“Bread, Pastrami and Cocktails: Museum Shows Focus on Food” – New York Times article on recent museum food exhibits (Oct. 21, 2022)

The Alimentarium museum in Vevey, Switzerland, and its website may be the most impressive food museum in the world, with its wide-ranging and fun exhibits in the original 100-year-old headquarters of Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.

Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History exhibit on Food: Transforming the American Table touches on food production, the beginnings of the “food movement” in the 1970s, and other topics, but its “star” is Julia Child’s actual kitchen.

The Museum of Food and Drink in New York City sponsors collaborative exhibits and events on cultural aspects of food, especially related to immigrant groups.

Organizations Fighting World Hunger

Global Burden of Disease: in an awesome report, an international group of experts estimated the burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories.

The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for salt reduction because 2.5 million deaths could be prevented each year if earthlings consumed less salt.

WebMD calculator enables you to tally up the calorie content of foods you consume in a meal or a day (includes fresh, packaged, and chain-restaurant foods).

Ultra-processed foods—a quick primer (Washington Post).

SmartLabel: the American food industry website that lists nutrients, ingredients, presence or absence of GMOs, and other information for thousands of packaged foods.