Farm Action Calls for Increased Fruit and Vegetable Farmer Supports to Boost Food System Resilience
Offering more federal support to America’s fruit and vegetable farmers will secure our food supply, said Farm Action.
Offering more federal support to America’s fruit and vegetable farmers will secure our food supply, said Farm Action.
USDA should be using its federal food procurement dollars to jump-start the local food systems that were decimated by decades of industry consolidation.
As the U.S. ag trade deficit is forecast to increase by 45%, our research shows we could balance it by converting less than .5% of farmland to high-value crops.
Hundreds gathered at the Food Not Feed Summit with a shared goal of establishing an agenda to shift federal farm programs toward food for people, not just feed for corporate-controlled livestock.
Thanks to the influence of corporate monopolies in our food system, there is a big, glaring contradiction between the kind of food our government recommends and the kinds of food it supports.
Farm Action’s recommendations to the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health point out that food and farm policy is causing our health crisis.
We’re pushing back against corporate-created myths: the methods and practices of industrial agriculture pose significant and well-documented risks to human health.
Giant meatpackers like Cargill and JBS are the beneficiaries of billions of dollars of U.S. government subsidies. But they don’t get this money directly.