Interest group FOR healthy food

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The interest group for healthy food (IG FÜR) is a registered association recognized as a non-profit in February 2001 with seat in Fulda and an office in Berlin .

purpose

“The purpose of the association is to use factual information to develop awareness of the importance of healthy food for people's health. To this end, the association wants to inform the public and consumers of foods about their origins, their production and processing, their structure and composition. "

Goals and mission statement

In 1997 the grocer Georg Sedlmaier founded the IG FÜR under the motto “Food is a means to life! And every purchase is your voting slip! ” . The purpose of the association is to create awareness for healthy foods that are in harmony with creation. IG FÜR takes a holistic view of food, from the creation of the raw materials to the consumer's plate. The association works nationwide to impart knowledge and to show positive effects as well as beneficial effects of healthy food. He is addressing producers, industry and trade, politics and science and, last but not least, consumers. The association is committed to an exchange of experiences with people from a wide variety of positions, interest groups, parties and companies.

Activities and projects

The association organizes symposia on current topics:

  • “Healthy and fit for the future. Unpolluted food fresh on the table - profitable opportunities for producers, industry and trade ”, Kronberg im Taunus, 2007
  • “No life without water”, Frankfurt 2010
  • "Does Fischers Fritz still fish fresh fish?", Hamburg 2011
  • “Do we have the right food packaging?”, Berlin 2013, joint symposium of IG FÜR and the consumer initiative
  • "Human welfare = animal welfare?", Fulda 2014
  • “Food sold out - are we producing the shortages of tomorrow?”, Cologne 2015
  • "Shaping the future: With quality and diversity", Fulda 2016
  • "The future of healthy food", anniversary event, 20 years IG FÜR, Fulda 2017
  • "Is it all up? What does biodiversity mean for our future as a society and for us in the food industry? ”, Berlin 2018
  • “Climate change now! Save the world with the shopping list? ”, Berlin 2019

In Fulda and Kempten, the association organizes monthly lecture evenings for consumers on current key topics, for example “Are good food scarce?” (In cooperation with the World Future Council ), “Widespread diseases can be eaten and drunk! But health too! ”.

In addition, the association provides information on current topics at events for social and political groups as well as on radio programs.

According to the motto “Strengthening good people”, “Companies and owners who are outstandingly committed to the ideas and goals of IG FÜR, which make a significant contribution to raising awareness” are awarded the IG FÜR letter of honor in silver and gold. Joseph Wilhelm ( Rapunzel Naturkost ), Thomas Bruch (Globus Holding), Alain Caparros (formerly REWE Group) and Jürgen Mäder ( EDEKA Südwest ) received the Golden Letter of Honor .

Members and supporters

There are around 700 members from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain and Egypt. In addition to private individuals, companies in the food industry, church and political organizations, professional associations and other institutions are members. Among the honorary members are, for example, Helmy Abouleish, Managing Director of SEKEM and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development in Cairo, Johann Lafer , Cem Özdemir , Reinhold Messner and Vandana Shiva .

organization

The association is headed by a voluntary executive board, chaired by Georg Sedlmaier. A scientific advisory board advises the board. This is interdisciplinary and supports the board as an independent body on a voluntary basis. The scientific advisory board includes Peter Hamel, Manfred Hoffmann , Gerd Jahreis, Claus Leitzmann , Michael Leitzmann, Uwe Meier, Ruth Tippe (scientific advice from Testbiotech) and Christoph Then (managing director and scientific director of Testbiotech).

Publications

"IG FÜR Magazin" appears three times a year.

Georg Sedlmaier brought out seven books, most recently "The Art of Small Steps" (2020), "Is Eating Religion?" (2017), "Diversity instead of simplicity" (2014) and "Healthy through life" (2010) (all published by BoD Verlag).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Association | About us. In: ig-fuer.de. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Food Practice
  3. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Georg Sedlmaier from Kempten. March 8, 2019, accessed April 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Source publishing house
  5. ↑ Georg Sedlmaier: "Every purchase is a voting slip" . In: Osthessen | News . October 25, 2016 ( osthessen-news.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).
  6. ↑ IG FOR info flyers. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Food Practice
  8. ↑ Hamburg Environmental Education Portal
  9. ^ The Consumer Initiative eV
  10. ↑ Food Practice
  11. ↑ Quell Verlag
  12. ↑ IG FÜR: IG FÜR Symposium 2016: "Shaping the future: With quality and diversity". November 23, 2016, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  13. ↑ 20 years IG FÜR: "The future of healthy food". In: oekolandbau.de. July 3, 2017, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  14. ↑ IG FOR Symposium 2018 "Summed up". Accessed March 31, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ IG FOR Symposium 2019 in Berlin. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Dangers unknown . In: Kreisbote , May 31, 2012.
  17. ↑ Individual and collective responsibility in the social market economy . Conference program of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for April 3 to 5, 2013.
  18. ↑ Holder of the IG FÜR letter of honor . In: ig-fuer.de . Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  19. ↑ IG FOR letter of honor in gold goes to the Rapunzel founder. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Award of the Golden IG FÜR Honorary Letter to Globus. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Alain Caparros receives a Golden Letter of Honor from the IG FÜR. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Jürgen Mäder receives a Golden Letter of Honor from the IG FÜR. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Introduction of the members | Our members. In: ig-fuer.de. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
  24. ↑ IG FOR honorary members. In: ig-fuer.de. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Board of Directors | Association | About us | Interest group FOR healthy food. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
  26. ^ Scientific advisory board of the IG FÜR. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Books | Publications | Interest group FOR healthy food. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Catholic1tv: Is food a religion? February 23, 2018, accessed April 4, 2018 .
  29. ↑ "Is food a religion?" Asks Georg Sedlmaier with the title of his new book . In: https://www.kreisbote.de/ . February 2, 2018 ( Kreisbote.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).