I am the 2024 Joyce Lindower Wolitzer ’76 and Steven Wolitzer Seminar speaker and will be at Cornell for events connected with it. My Wolitzer talk, “Food Politics 2024: An Agenda for Action” is at 4:45 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall, followed by a book signing. No registration necessary, just come!
by Marion Nestle
Feb
23
2017
Plate of the Union launches farm bill initiative
The Environmental Working Group and Food Policy Action are trying to get a head start on the upcoming Farm Bill. Their new initiative: Plate of the Union.
This has four objectives:
- Stop taxpayer subsidies going to Big Ag polluters – instead, invest in healthier farms.
- Protect and improve vital anti-hunger programs.
- Increase federal investments in organic agriculture.
- Expand federal programs to revitalize land and reduce food waste.
These are critically important goals. Everyone who cares about food needs to understand the farm bill and what it does.
But how to achieve them?
I’d like to know the action plan. Stay tuned.