Food!

September 20, 2013

This post first appeared on bicuturalfamilia.com. I grew up on Food Stamps. As a child, that's all I knew. Well, that, and the long lines we waited in for cheese, butter and powdered milk at the end of the month when food ran out. Or the glare looks from men and women in the grocery lines as my...

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Chantilly Patiño

Food!

September 19, 2013

Just weeks after the USDA reported that 14.5% of American households struggled to put food on the table, today the House of Representatives passed, 217-210 , a shameful bill that cuts $40 billion to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps). Such a move would end benefits...

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Elyssa Schmier

Politics & Policy Food!

September 17, 2013

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the “Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act,” making an unprecedented move to separate the nutrition portion of the Farm Bill reauthorization. As part of this effort, an extreme group of House Republicans has gone all out to gut...

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Zoila Sanchez

Food!

September 12, 2013

Members of the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps) by a whopping $40 billion . This move would cut millions of children and families from the program and reduce benefits for even more. At a time of high...

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Elyssa Schmier

Environmental Health Food!

September 4, 2013

As a nation, we have become accustomed to paying relatively little for our food as a percentage of overall income. [i] While this cheap food may on the face of it seem like a good thing, it actually comes at an alarming, and astronomical, cost. This is due to the fact that whenever you buy non-...

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Diana Donlon

Food!

September 4, 2013

Calling all super parents! Do you sometimes feel like kids are the targets of too much junk food marketing? Have you ever cringed when youheard what your child ate at school? Do you believe every family should have access to healthy and nutritious food? And do you love meeting other motivated super...

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Karen Showalter

Food!

August 22, 2013

Cross-posted from Truthout | Criminalization, Race and Food Access in a Time of Hyper-Afrophobia Black and brown people deserve the right to LIFE, liberty and the ability to pursue happiness. Black and brown people deserve the right to access quality food. Those rights are connected. Last week,...

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Dara Cooper

Food!

August 7, 2013

FRAC and MomsRising invite you to a tweetchat this Friday, August 9th at 1 PM EDT for a special #FoodFri tweetchat with Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern about SNAP and Hunger In America . We hope you will join us to tweet your comments, resources and questions by adding the hashtag #FoodFri...

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dream hampton

Food!

August 5, 2013

In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission reported the food and beverage industry spends $1.8 billion each year on food marketing to kids. As a parent, that number makes me tired, and the advertisements themselves exhaust me. I know I’m not alone—even the strongest among us have been worn down by the...

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Manel Kappagoda

Food!

August 2, 2013

“I don’t think it’s fair when big companies try to trick kids into eating food. It isn’t fair that so many kids my age are getting sick.” That was the zinger by Hannah Robertson directed to McDonald’s CEO who countered “We don’t sell junk food.” Plenty of backlash centered on Hannah’s mother, a...

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