AMERICAN food crisis

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14 million children regularly miss meals — three times more than during the Great Recession and five times more than before the pandemic.

It’s even worse for Latino and Black families, whose rates of nutrition insecurity have spiked to 25% and 30%.

Meanwhile we’ve seen graphic pictures of farmers dumping truckloads of milk, onions, beans, eggs and more because restaurants and industrial kitchens aren’t buying and farmers can’t afford to harvest and transport the food to those going hungry.

Even before the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated 37 million people in America struggled with hunger and nutrition.

COVID-19 didn’t create nutrition insecurity, but it’s made clear the imperative to act: We have a chance to give every child in America access to nourishing food — not just today, but every day — and to deliver greater health and equity throughout the entire food system.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 570835001/