Hospital food. The words cause some people's faces to scrunch up in disgust. Find out why this is starting to change, and if better food is coming to a hospital near you!
On a recent trip home, when I was fortuitously delayed by eight hours in Vancouver, I got to talking to a fascinating woman who deals with environmental solutions to waste generated by institutions- namely hospitals. We started talking about the state of hospital food today and both agreed that the very food that's supposed to cure us, often makes us feel worse. The big question here is WHY? Is it sheer economics, ignorance or greed? Perhaps a combination of all of the above?
In an attempt to answer some of these questions, Laura Brannen (the above-mentioned woman) put me in touch with two of her colleagues that are working on the sustainable food side of institutions (including hospitals), from two different organizations. Join me this week as I speak with John Turenne and Jamie Harvie, two individuals in the frontline battle against lacklustre hospital food and what's being done to make food services within hospitals better for both patients and the environment.
