06/16/2023
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of June 14, 2023
Sign up for the newsletter
๐ก๐ฌ๐๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐.๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด ๐ข๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐
โข 2023 Food Policy Changemaker Award: Mayor Eric Adams (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Debt Ceiling Deal Limits SNAP Eligibility with Work Requirements (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in NYC Food Policy (Class of 2023) (nycfoodpolicy.org)
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐น๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด
โข New York City Residents Will Soon Have to Compost Their Food Scraps (New York Times)
โข NYC Makes it Mandatory for Residential Buildings to Recycle Food Waste (City Limits)
โข More Food Education and Plant-Based Foods: Here Is NYCโs Vision for Healthier Students (Chalkbeat)
โข NYC Food Delivery Workers Secure Landmark Minimum Pay Rate (The City)
โข New York City Will Raise Delivery Wages to $19.96 in 2025 (Restaurant Dive)
โข NYC Chef, Family On Food Stamps After City Demolishes Dining Shed (New York Patch)
โข Food Bank for New York City Receives $450K From New Yorkโs Empire BlueCross BlueShield Foundation to Launch โFood as
Medicineโ Program (BusinessWire)
โข New York City, Connecticut Eye Policy Changes (Resource Recycling)
โข How NYC Officials Failed To Prepare for an Air Quality Crisis (Grist)
โข Benโs Friends Offers Support for Food Industry Workers Who Struggle With Addiction (Greenpointers)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข How Pantries Are Overcoming Obstacles to Client Choice (Food Bank News)
โข Eating Healthy Is Hard. Itโs Even Harder for People Who Can Barely Afford To Eat at All (CBC)
โข How Some Families Are Banned From Food Stamps for Life Due to Past Drug Convictions (PBS)
โข How Can Seaweed Farming Help Tackle Global Food Insecurity? (New Food Magazine)
โข The Link Between Food Insecurity and Binge Eating (Psychology Today)
โข U.S. Immigrants Particularly Vulnerable to Food Insecurity, Study Shows (Newswise)
โข New Polling: Americans Unified on Sustainable Seafood and Food Security (Perishable News)
โข Ukraine Dam Breach Will Sow Huge Problems for Food Security, UN Aid Chief Says (Reuters)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ (๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ)
โข Produce Perks PRx: Produce Prescription Program Spotlight (Center For Food As Medicine)
โข Doctors Taste-Test Hospital Food (Medpage Today)
โข How Can I Avoid Eating Food With โForeverโ Chemicals? (Washington Post)
โข Hospital-Based, Community Teaching Kitchen Integrates Diabetes Education, Culinary Medicine, and Food Assistance: Case Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Journal of General Internal Medicine)
โข What Regenerative Agriculture Can Teach Medical Students About Human Health (IJME)
โข Excessive Alcohol Consumption May Accelerate Alzheimerโs Disease Progression (EurekAlert!)
โข Maternal Diet Influences Postnatal Diabetes Risk (VUMC Reporter)
โข Mainstreaming Produce Prescriptions in Medicaid Managed Care: A Policy Toolkit and Resource Library (Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School & DC Greens)
โข Subscribe to the Center for Food as Medicine Newsletter HERE.
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต
โข NY Moves Against Neonic Insecticides (Progressive Farmer)
โข In California, Climate Change Fuels Disastersโand a Push For More Farmworker Protections (Modern Farmer)
โข Bringing Oats Back to American Farms (Civil Eats)
โข USDA Considers Higher Standards for โHumane,โ Antibiotic-Free Meat Labeling (Washington Post)
โข As Seaweed Farming Expands, UN Report Urges More Research, โCautious Optimismโ (Ag Insider)
โข Does the Mississippi River Have Rights? (Grist)
โข EPA Sued Over Herbicide Approvals (Food Safety News)
โข Wait? Now We Have to Worry About Plankton? (Mother Jones)
โข Turning the Tide on Animal Suffering (New York Times)
โข As Chaga Keeps Trending, Mycologists Worry About Running Out (Modern Farmer)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ
โข Lecturer Shakara Tyler: Black Food Sovereignty Is a Real Possibility in Detroit (UMich News)
โข The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Immokalee, Florida (Civil Eats)
โข Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV) (Monthly Review Online)
โข A Crowded Table (Southern Foodways Alliance)
โข Sharing Is Caring: How Seed Saving Can Restore Food Sovereignty (Landscape News)
โข Gender-Based Violence in Food Systems (Nature Food)
โข โEverything Is Natural and Tastes So Goodโ: Microfarms Push Back Against โFood Apartheidโ (The Guardian)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐บ & ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข Finding the Humanity in Legislation: Unpacking the 2023 Farm Bill (Food Tank)
โข A Different Kind of Nutrition Debate in Washington (Food Fix)
โข A California Bill Could Reveal Corporate Americaโs Climate Secrets (Grist)
โข Is Whole Milk Headed Back to School? (Modern Farmer)
โข Denver Initiative Would Ask Voters in 2024 To Ban Livestock Slaughter Facilities and Use (Food Safety News)
โข Proposed Policy Aims To Streamline Alaskaโs Food Stamp Application Process (Alaska Public Media)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข USDA Celebrates SNAP Online Purchasing Now Available in All 50 States (USDA.gov)
โข SNAP Online Ordering Is Now Available Nationwide (Grocery Dive)
โข Inside Costcoโs Billion-Dollar Bet On $4.99 Rotisserie Chickens (Forbes)
โข Are We Near the End of Food Inflation? (The Food Institute)
โข Innovative Technology Can Help Curb Child Labour in Agriculture (FAO)
โข ChatGPT Designs Its First Robot With Food Supply in Mind (Morning Ag Clips)
โข Food Delivery Apps Are Getting Lost in Transit (Financial Times)
โข Egg Prices Are Finally, Really, Truly Coming Down (The Takeout)
โข What Does AeroFarmsโ Bankruptcy Signal for CEAโs Future? (The Food Institute)
โข Climb in Consumer Food Spending Signals Continued Inflationary Pressure (Purdue University News)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ต๐บ & ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ
โข New York State Agriculture Commissioner Highlights Food Safety Efforts in Honor of World Food Safety Day (NY.gov)
โข Food Safety for Food SecurityโHow FDA and State Agriculture Departments Meet Global Food Safety and Supply Needs (Food Safety Magazine)
โข Food Safety โ A Pillar for Food Security (ReliefWeb)
โข Byproduct of Sucralose, a Chemical in Splenda, Found To Cause โSignificant Health Effectsโ in New Study (Fox News)
โข Get Off your Ash; Protect Your Lungs! (Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety)
๐ก๐ฌ๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐
โข The Center has created 59 Neighborhood Food Resource Guides. Click HERE to find your neighborhood.
โข The Center’s guides have been updated by more than 300 volunteers who have spent thousands of hours making more than 200,000 calls to keep data up-to-date.
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
โข Food Access in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Media Monitoring Study (JMIR Preprints)
โข Looking Back: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Provided Opportunity to Equitably Improve Meal Provision (American Journal of Public Health)
โข The Impact of the Oakland Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax on Price Promotions of Sugar-Sweetened and Alternative Beverages (PLoS One)
โข Integrating Sustainable Diets in Healthcare Organizations: A Qualitative Study Among Key Informants about Challenges and Promising Avenues (Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition)
โข Characterisation of Food Governance for Alternative and Sustainable Food Systems: A Systematic Review (Agricultural and Food Economics)
โข How Green Spaces Can Combat Gun Violence in America (American Journal of Public Health)
โข An Ecological Approach for Advancing the Understanding of Nutrition and Health (JAMA Pediatrics)
โข Influence of Relay Intercropping of Barley With Chickpea on Biochemical Characteristics and Yield Under Water Stress (PLoS One)
โข Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity Implemented in Pediatric Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA)
