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Husker Food Connection helps ‘bridge the gap’

Students on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) city campus had the opportunity Thursday to learn more about where their food comes from during Husker Food Connection.

Lukas Fricke, an animal science major from Ulysses and one of the organizers of the event, says it’s designed to bridge the gap between the farm and ranch students on ag campus and urban students on city campus.

“We have a ton of students here today that are questioning where their food actually comes from—and it’s an important time now, when we have buzzwords like GMO, frankenfoods, different things like that,” Fricke says. “We have nothing to hide.  We’re just here to answer those questions and show them what we really are doing every single day.”

Also working at Husker Food Connection was ag economics major Spencer Hartman of Imperial.

“For many of these students around here, this could their first and only time interacting with live animals and the tractor that we have here, as well as the beef lab and other activities like that going on,” Hartman says. “It’s not every day you get to touch and feel and see things right in front of your eyes.”

Hartman, by the way, was recently elected speaker of the senate for the student association at UNL.  Last year, Hartman and Fricke played key roles in convincing the UNL student senate to reject a “Meatless Monday” resolution that was brought before that body.

AUDIO: Lukas Fricke and Spencer Hartman