Beyond National News: State and Local Food Victories Across the Country
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, our food system has become a much more nationally prominent subject. Be it the destructive environmental impacts of factory farming, the unjust...Improvements, challenges and opportunities for progress in Child Nutrition Reauthorization
By Sara S. Blomquist, SFUSA Food and Farm Policy Steering Committee Every five years, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). These...Our recommendations for advancing racial justice and equity at the USDA
Slow Food USA’s Farm and Food Policy working group responded to the US Department of Agriculture’s call for feedback on how it can enhance racial equity and justice across the department. Please read below and consider submitting your ideas before August...Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Letter from Slow Food USA
About every five years, Congress, via a Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR), reauthorizes essential federal nutrition programs that help provide healthy food and nutrition to more than 35,000,000 children and infants each year. Slow Food USA calls upon Congress and the Biden/Harris Administration to ensure that the next Child Nutrition Reauthorization addresses the many facets of child nutrition security. Read our Executive Director’s letter to Congress.
