Hi Ed,

We had a great offline panel discussion in San Francisco last month that is flowing into online discussions:

http://commonwealthclub.blogspot.com/2009/04/0423-new-national-food-policy.html

With luck, they'll post the audio soon.

Here's one discussion it sparked in the blogosphere:

http://civileats.com/2009/04/28/10-ways-to-support-a-sustainable-urban-food-system-through-politics-and-participation-in-the-food-economy/

This is definitely concerning.  We started a blog back in 2005 and it hasn't had much conversation going.   I'm strill figuring out how to get organizational buy-in to listening and social networking.  Most people are engaged by snazzy new campaigns.  I'm curious what a conversation about hunger would look like in this space.  Do we want to hear people's stories?  Do we want to know what's happening in their communities with regard to nutrition, access to healthy food, foreclosures, child nutrition and health?  I think if we reframe the conversation as beyond hunger - everything linked to healthy food...we'd get more of a dialogue.