Organization:
Midnight Kitchen

Project description: The Midnight Kitchen is looking for someone to work on a research project about food safety and expiration dates found on food packaging. Ideally, this project would look into the market incentives behind expiration date labeling in comparison with the actual interval within which food is safe for consumption. The research could take nutritional perspective or focus more on political aspects (policy, historical trends, etc).

We’re interested in this project in two ways. First, we’d like to use
this information in a larger political project on food waste. We might
turn some of this information into political posters in our serving
space, or into a zine/pamphlet to be distributed at servings. Second,
since MK uses donated surplus food that isn’t always in prime
condition, it would be good to have more research on food safety.

Final product: Research paper, video or pamphlet

Skills required: Someone interested in food politics, and preferably, but not necessarily, 2nd year or above.

About the organization: The Midnight Kitchen is a non-profit, volunteer and worker run food collective dedicated to providing affordable, healthy food to as many people as possible. Based out of McGill University in Montreal, QC, we provide free/by donation vegan lunches 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, at 12:30 in the Shatner building on McGill campus.

http://www.themidnightkitchen.blogspot.com/