We, the University of Arizona's Palm Oil Awareness Initiative, participated in UA Food Day on October 23rd. The UA's Food Day is a yearly national event to bring awareness and access to healthy, sustainable, affordable food. The Palm Oil Initiative had a table providing information on palm oil, taste tests of foods that do and do not have palm oil in them, and informational games. We can happily say that the event was a success! New members joined, and we received a positive reaction for our wallet card prototype, which offers information regarding what companies use palm oil and what companies may be good alternatives. We ran out of wallet cards (newer version to come) and best of all, had an opportunity to inform the public! Our participation in the UA Food Day event was supported by the UA Student/Faculty Interaction Grant 2014-039-S.
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The University of Arizona's online news blog, UANews Blog, featured our group this week, and we were the Editor's Pick! Read about how our group got started and where we're headed.
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