{"id":7129,"date":"2020-03-18T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/blog\/right-healthy-food-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:10:00","slug":"right-healthy-food-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/right-healthy-food-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to (Healthy) Food in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

With one in nine Americans<\/a> already struggling to put food on the table, food insecurity and lack of access to healthy food<\/a> are problems in the best of times. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching an already inadequate<\/a> social safety net to the breaking point.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass emergency food aid now and then work to realize the Green New Deal\u2019s goal of \u201cbuilding a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I hope you and your family are well. (For information on how to stay healthy and prevent viral infections, including coronavirus, click here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re feeling fine and making the most of time at home, it\u2019s hard not to worry.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to be low-income or food-insecure to be concerned about how to prepare<\/a> to feed your family three meals a day, for weeks at a time when grocery stores with empty shelves<\/a> drastically cut their hours<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re already low-income, or relying on school meals or food assistance, or if the coronavirus epidemic has reduced your income or put you out of work, access to food is as much of a concern as avoiding COVID-19.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

School meals<\/a> and food pantries<\/a> are unable to serve all who currently rely on them. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Need grows each day as the coronavirus crisis puts new strains on families\u2019 finances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no Right to Food under the U.S. Constitution. Internationally, Trump\u2019s ambassadors have announced<\/a> that \u201cwe do not treat the right to food as an enforceable obligation,\u201d as they pulled the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Green New Deal<\/a> resolution is the first proposal in Congress to state that it is the duty of the Federal Government to secure healthy food for all people of the U.S. for generations to come. The resolution proposes to do so \u201cby building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a coronavirus stimulus package that includes $1 billion<\/a> for food security programs aimed at bolstering food assistance during the pandemic, but the Senate might not pass the bill as is.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass emergency food aid now and then work to realize the Green New Deal\u2019s goal of \u201cbuilding a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With one in nine Americans<\/a> already struggling to put food on the table, food insecurity and lack of access to healthy food<\/a> are problems in the best of times. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching an already inadequate<\/a> social safety net to the breaking point.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass emergency food aid now and then work to realize the Green New Deal\u2019s goal of \u201cbuilding a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1026],"tags":[33,37,8,34],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Right to (Healthy) Food in a Pandemic - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/right-healthy-food-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Right to (Healthy) Food in a Pandemic - 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