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Food Day.org is a campaign initiative run by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Since 2011, Food Day.org has been working to promote and organize the national celebration of a national Food Day on October 24th in the United States. Food Day is a celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24th.

2,300 events took place across the country during the first Food Day in 2011 and 3,200 in 2012. Events have been hosted by a variety of different groups including local governments, food co-ops, schools, college campuses, non-profits, businesses, government agencies, food banks, farms and farmers, and restaurants.

Food Day.org works to help people eat “real food” which the campaign defines as food that is produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve this food. The organization recommends cutting back on sugary, fatty, and salty prepackaged foods and factory-farmed meats. They suggest that instead, people should focus more on eating fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and sustainably raised proteins. .

Food Day.org has five priority areas of concern within the food system and aims to promote safer, healthier diets, support sustainable and organic farms, reduce hunger, reform factory farms to protect the environment and farm animals, and support fair working conditions for food and farm workers. The organization also works to advocate for policies that they believe will help build a healthier food system, such as food nutrition education and food literacy in schools, nutrition standards for food marketing in schools, penny-per-ounce excise tax on sugary drinks, farmer’s markets accepting EBT cards for SNAP and WIC, banning the use of gestation crates for sows, and incentives for farms to convert from conventional to organic

Many of the leading food movement activist in the US are members of the advisory board and many national food, health, hunger, and environmental organizations are Food Day partners