EAT Week Commentaries: Bryant Terry
You have found the destination for intriguing interviews and engaging questions about environmental topics. Today we will be focusing on Bryant Terry. In 2001, Bryant founded the New York City organization “B-Healthy!” [www.b-healthy.org] (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth). The organization is really interesting, because it focuses on how the availability and knowledge of good, nutritious food can be a major contributor to the degradation of poor, low-income neighborhoods. We all agree that everyone deserves to have good food that makes their lives more active and exciting. After all, humans have to eat all the time. If every meal seems like a drab repeat of the meals before it, then it’s not hard to imagine how a person could turn to drugs, dangerous activities or other angry distractions. Couple the lack of fun and nutritious food options with a poverty-stricken neighborhood and you have a recipe for many of the inner city problems found throughout America. Bryant wants to do his part to change all this. In the following clip Bryant describes the event that triggered his epiphany and led to the creation of “B-Healthy!”
What Made Bryant Terry a Food Activist?
Now we know about Bryant’s notable organization and we can get involved with the big issues. However, it would be a disservice to you, our readers, if we did not also drive your attention towards a new and wonderful resource for enriching your own personal food experience. Bryant Terry wrote a book called “Grub” [www.eatgrub.org]. In it one can learn about where many types of foods come from, how one can pick and choose among the options to create the best “food system” for oneself and one’s family, and finally, some specific recipes that are no doubt delicious.
Bryant Terry Tells Us About His New Book: Grub
If you want to learn more about Bryant and his time in the Sundance Channel original series BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET, check out our profile section and zip over to his profile.
