article_snippet.sent: (CNN)I've been a chef in some form or another since I was 14 years old, but I didn't become a food activist until much later.
article_snippet.sent: It was 2007, and a young girl my wife mentored was found rooting through the trash just to find something to eat.
article_snippet.sent: That inspired me to found Food Policy Action and become politically active in a range of food issues, from hunger to factory farms.
article_snippet.sent: Of course, I haven't been alone in this work.