2018 EatingWell American Food Heroes
Welcome to our second annual American Food Heroes list, honoring 12 people doing extraordinary things to make food better in our country. They’re the icons informing us where our food comes from, how it’s produced and its impact on our health, communities and the environment. To compile the list, we called for nominations from readers as well as top experts to find out who has been making a real impact in the food space, particularly in the past year. Then our editorial team reviewed the submissions and winnowed them down to the winners you’ll read about here. Prepare to be inspired! Meet this year’s American Food Heroes: 1. Julie Packard Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Slavery Plagues the Seafood Industry, Here’s How One Woman Is Making a Difference Packard’s new Slavery Risk Tool helps seafood buyers avoid fish from areas where forced labor, human trafficking or child labor may be occurring. 2. Chellie Pingree Congresswoman, 1st District of Maine Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree Pingree is pushing to up organic standards and get more funding for organic programs in the farm bill. 3. Larry Clemens Director of North America’s Agricultural Program at The Nature Conservancy Healthy Dirt? According to One Sustainabilty Expert, Our Future Depends On It Working with farmers and ranchers to improve the health of their soil. As Clemens says, “The better the quality of your soil, the better the quality of of your vegetables.” 4. Tom Colicchio Chef and Owner of Crafted Hospitality restaurant group Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Is on a Mission to End Hunger for Veterans Colicchio is putting D.C. politicians “on notice” about hunger in the U.S., advocating for food safety, nutrition and hunger issues-particularly school lunch programs and hunger among veterans. 5. Marc Oshima Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of AeroFarms Marc Leafy greens are the biggest contributors to food waste in America. Oshima aims to change that. 6. Joann Lo & Jose Oliva Co-Directors of the Food Chain Workers Alliance Joann Lo & Jose Oliva Their nonprofit advocates for workers all across the food chain by banding together 31 different organizations into one 340,000-member-strong group that, in the past year, has advocated for everything from supporting immigrant food workers to fair wages for restaurant staff. 7. Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H. Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard University Meet the Man Responsible for Getting Trans Fats Out of Our Food His two-decade fight to get trans fats out of our food is now a reality. 8. Michel Nischan Chef and Founder of Wholesome Wave This Chef Is Working with Doctors to Prescribe Food As Medicine, And It’s Making Patients Healthier Providing healthy fruits and vegetables to underserved families through the creation of a produce prescription program called FVRx (Fruit and Vegetable Rx). The program is simple: health care providers hand their patients prescriptions for fresh produce that they can redeem for $1 a day per household member. 9. Katie Forrest & Taylor Collins Co-Founders, Epic Provisions EPIC Founders Are Changing the Meat Industry One Protein Bar At a Time Their nose-to-tail meat snack company is committed to sustainable sourcing. 10. Paul Polman CEO of Unilever Unilever’s Plan to Curb Wasteful Packaging Impacts All of Us—for the Better A vocal champion of sustainability, he’s working to reduce wasteful packaging, pledging that 100 percent of Unilever’s plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
2018 EatingWell American Food Heroes
2018 EatingWell American Food Heroes
2018 EatingWell American Food Heroes
Welcome to our second annual American Food Heroes list, honoring 12 people doing extraordinary things to make food better in our country. They’re the icons informing us where our food comes from, how it’s produced and its impact on our health, communities and the environment. To compile the list, we called for nominations from readers as well as top experts to find out who has been making a real impact in the food space, particularly in the past year. Then our editorial team reviewed the submissions and winnowed them down to the winners you’ll read about here. Prepare to be inspired!
Meet this year’s American Food Heroes:
1. Julie Packard
Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Slavery Plagues the Seafood Industry, Here's How One Woman Is Making a Difference
Packard’s new Slavery Risk Tool helps seafood buyers avoid fish from areas where forced labor, human trafficking or child labor may be occurring.
2. Chellie Pingree
Congresswoman, 1st District of Maine
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
Pingree is pushing to up organic standards and get more funding for organic programs in the farm bill.
3. Larry Clemens
Director of North America’s Agricultural Program at The Nature Conservancy
Healthy Dirt? According to One Sustainabilty Expert, Our Future Depends On It
Working with farmers and ranchers to improve the health of their soil. As Clemens says, “The better the quality of your soil, the better the quality of of your vegetables.”
4. Tom Colicchio
Chef and Owner of Crafted Hospitality restaurant group
Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Is on a Mission to End Hunger for Veterans
Colicchio is putting D.C. politicians “on notice” about hunger in the U.S., advocating for food safety, nutrition and hunger issues-particularly school lunch programs and hunger among veterans.
5. Marc Oshima
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of AeroFarms
Marc
Leafy greens are the biggest contributors to food waste in America. Oshima aims to change that.
6. Joann Lo & Jose Oliva
Co-Directors of the Food Chain Workers Alliance
Joann Lo & Jose Oliva
Their nonprofit advocates for workers all across the food chain by banding together 31 different organizations into one 340,000-member-strong group that, in the past year, has advocated for everything from supporting immigrant food workers to fair wages for restaurant staff.
7. Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard University
Meet the Man Responsible for Getting Trans Fats Out of Our Food
His two-decade fight to get trans fats out of our food is now a reality.
8. Michel Nischan
Chef and Founder of Wholesome Wave
This Chef Is Working with Doctors to Prescribe Food As Medicine, And It's Making Patients Healthier
Providing healthy fruits and vegetables to underserved families through the creation of a produce prescription program called FVRx (Fruit and Vegetable Rx). The program is simple: health care providers hand their patients prescriptions for fresh produce that they can redeem for $1 a day per household member.
9. Katie Forrest & Taylor Collins
Co-Founders, Epic Provisions
EPIC Founders Are Changing the Meat Industry One Protein Bar At a Time
Their nose-to-tail meat snack company is committed to sustainable sourcing.
10. Paul Polman
CEO of Unilever
Unilever's Plan to Curb Wasteful Packaging Impacts All of Us—for the Better
A vocal champion of sustainability, he’s working to reduce wasteful packaging, pledging that 100 percent of Unilever’s plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
Slavery Plagues the Seafood Industry, Here’s How One Woman Is Making a Difference
Slavery Plagues the Seafood Industry, Here’s How One Woman Is Making a Difference
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
Healthy Dirt? According to One Sustainabilty Expert, Our Future Depends On It
Healthy Dirt? According to One Sustainabilty Expert, Our Future Depends On It
Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Is on a Mission to End Hunger for Veterans
Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Is on a Mission to End Hunger for Veterans
Marc
Marc
Joann Lo & Jose Oliva
Joann Lo & Jose Oliva
Meet the Man Responsible for Getting Trans Fats Out of Our Food
Meet the Man Responsible for Getting Trans Fats Out of Our Food
This Chef Is Working with Doctors to Prescribe Food As Medicine, And It’s Making Patients Healthier
This Chef Is Working with Doctors to Prescribe Food As Medicine, And It’s Making Patients Healthier
EPIC Founders Are Changing the Meat Industry One Protein Bar At a Time
EPIC Founders Are Changing the Meat Industry One Protein Bar At a Time
Unilever’s Plan to Curb Wasteful Packaging Impacts All of Us—for the Better
Unilever’s Plan to Curb Wasteful Packaging Impacts All of Us—for the Better
