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What are you cooking this spring? In our latest project, we’re asking the GOOD community to send us your best original recipes using spring ingredients. We’ll publish the recipes and accompanying photos in a slideshow and ask community members to vote on their favorite. Whoever gets the most votes will win a free subscription to GOOD Magazine and a GOOD T-shirt.
Click through to see how you can submit your tasty dish, and make sure to check out our previous seasonal cookbooks.
Project: Crowdsourced Cookbook, Spring Edition - Food - GOOD
CHOP, CHOP, MASH, MASH: The beauty of veggies and “cooking up a rainbow.”
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Americans are more likely to be killed by lightning than get HIV from a blood transfusion. So why is there still a lifetime ban on gay men donating blood? Amanda Hess looks into the structural homophobia of the blood supply:
Even some guys who are otherwise out of the closet have copped to lying to donate blood as a political statement. “Like jury duty, donating blood is something I consider my civic duty,” a gay blood donor wrote on Queerty in 2009. “And because I’m committed to donating blood, I regularly lie to the Red Cross about my sexuality.” The donor declined to include a byline. Back in 2002, Canadian blood donor Kyle Freemanwrote an anonymous email to Canadian Blood Services informing the agency that he had donated blood 18 times despite the country’s lifetime ban on donations from men who have had sex with men. “I am a gay man and have been involved in a long-term committed relationship,” he wrote. “Both my partner and myself [have] been tested for the HIV virus and are both negative and intend to stay that way. We are both very honest people and are both blood donors.” Canadian Blood Services didn’t see it that way: It tracked Freeman’s IP address, outed him, and sued him for $100,000 for lying on his blood screening questionnaire.
Why We Need Food Trucks in a Recession
A new proposed bill in California mandates that food trucks be barred from parking within 1,500 feet of public schools. Food trucks have been battling city and state governments across the country, from Boston to the Twin Cities to New York City. But these food trucks are softening the blow of our economic reality, in which food prices have risen, our time for lunch has shrunk, and the opportunities of entrepreneurs have been dampened by skittish banks and unpredictable outcomes.
In considering the problem of food deserts, places in America where grocery stores simply don’t exist, today we also consider the societal impact of “food swamps,” places overloaded with junk food purveyors. Is it better to provide health food or eliminate junk food?
Researchers examined data from about 5,000 young adults in four communities across the United States, and found that supermarket and grocery store access translated into neither an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption nor a healthier diet. What the study did find, however, is that a close proximity to fast food restaurants correlated with eating more fast food for one demographic—low-income men. Instead of pushing for more new supermarkets, the authors suggest that taxing junk food and subsidizing healthy food might make a bigger difference in how everyone eats.
Sign the Petition to Repeal the Outdated FDA Ban on Gay Blood Donors
In tandem with this week’s Building Block of Citizenship—to Give Blood—join in helping continue the fight to repeal the 1985 FDA ban on the millions of potential blood donors who have every right to donate as anyone else. The petition, currently at 5,700+ signatures, has only increased by around 1,000+ since last year—a far cry from its 100k goal.
Let’s get another win for equality and continue to save more lives.
Today’s task is a fun one: Compile a cooking soundtrack that rocks. What songs inspire you in the kitchen? Make a music mix to listen to while you work, then pick your absolute favorite cooking jam and submit it in the comments section of this post. GOOD will use the best suggestions submitted between now and June 27 to create GOOD’s Make Your Own Meals Playlist.
GOOD Citizenship Task 28: Make an Appointment to Give Blood #30DaysofGOOD
“Give the gift of life, give blood." Contact your local blood center today to make an appointment. What more basic way to be a good citizen. Plus, you can’t go wrong with a free cookie and sticker.
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