How do consumers affect the Food System? – Andrew Gunther

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I think the important thing for every consumer to understand: food is medicine, food is part of what makes them a whole person. So get to understand your food, get to understand where it comes from, and understand that food is a journey.

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    About Andrew Gunther

    Program Director Animal Welfare Approved

    Since 2008, Andrew has spearheaded Animal Welfare Approved’s unprecedented growth. AWA farms are now recognized as being at the vanguard ...read more.

  • What are you doing to change the Food System? – Andrew Gunther

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    As program director of “A Greener World,” I’m working with farmers and certifications that allow a consumer to identify farming practices and how they interact with their personal beliefs.

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    Name one thing you can do for the Food System – Andrew Gunther

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    I think the one thing folks can do if they want to move the food system in a different direction is understand where their food comes from, get involved in their food and make decisions based on what their personal preferences are.

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    What is the biggest problem with the Food System? – Andrew Gunther

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    I think the biggest problem with our food system today is our focus on the actual physical financial price of meat – so what I mean is, the nickel and dimes of meat – so it’s all about the cost rather than the real cost and the externalities, so we’re looking for what the consumer […]

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    Andrew Gunther at Meat Labels: Natural No More – Andrew Gunther

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    Now, that is a really hard to act to follow on the basis that everything Urvashi does is based in science. And although everything AWA does is based in science, we work with round about 2,000 farmers across the US, and about two million acres. And we’re a third party audit program. So what we […]