Author Nneka Okona’s article, Remembering Toni Morrison Through Her Food, is an eloquent and beautiful piece. She writes, “What remains true about every mention of food is how any action or movement throughout the plot changes rhythm once it enters into the equation. It’s as if the food takes center stage, a spotlight beaming down it that no reader could turn away from even if they wanted to, and everything stills and slows into a beautiful nothing.”

 

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La Via Campesina, founded in 1993, is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, fishers, migrant farmworkers, small and medium-size farmers, rural women, and peasant youth from around the world. Built on a solid sense of unity and solidarity, it defends peasant agriculture for food sovereignty. 

 

Video Explainer: What is Food Sovereignty? captures the purpose and power of this globe movement. 

 

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Transforming food systems in North Carolina by Food Tank, highlights FarmsSHARE, “... a program designed to foster relationships, reduce food insecurity, allow farmers to thrive, and, eventually, create a system that recognizes food as medicine.” 

 

The best solutions are rooted in community.

 

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In September 2024 Senator Cory Booker introduced Safe School Meals Act – a bill that would place limits on heavy metals, ban certain pesticide residues, trigger the safety reassessment of food additives including artificial food dyes and ban the use of PFAS, phthalates, and bisphenols in school food packaging. It would also increase funding available for schools to follow these guidelines. 

 

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