Food Tank
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Food Tank is the world's fastest growing global non-profit community working towards positive transformation in how we produce and consume food. foodtank.com
"Since 2010, the US has experienced a flatlining of life expectancy…This is an absolute crisis that needs political, scientific, medical, and public attention.” -Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director
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December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Since 2010, the US has experienced a flatlining of life expectancy…This is an absolute crisis that needs political, scientific, medical, and public attention.” -Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director
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“We have to pay farmers to produce the fruits and vegetables that we need. They can't be sending it across the world when we need it here." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“We have to pay farmers to produce the fruits and vegetables that we need. They can't be sending it across the world when we need it here." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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"We have to stop subsidizing ultra-processed foods. We have a lot of choices that we can make, we have to incentivize the local food supply being used." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"We have to stop subsidizing ultra-processed foods. We have a lot of choices that we can make, we have to incentivize the local food supply being used." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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"What is very clear is what we are feeding our families is making us sick." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"What is very clear is what we are feeding our families is making us sick." -U.S. Member of Congress Maxine Dexter, M.D.
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“In a land of extraordinary abundance, it is a bitter irony that so many Americans — particularly the poor, the marginalized & the forgotten — subsist on food that undermines their very existence.” -U.S. Member of Congress Jonathan Jackson
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December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“In a land of extraordinary abundance, it is a bitter irony that so many Americans — particularly the poor, the marginalized & the forgotten — subsist on food that undermines their very existence.” -U.S. Member of Congress Jonathan Jackson
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"This diet-related disease problem is not something that we can solve alone at the FDA. This is something that will take a societal movement," says Kyle Diamantas, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, US FDA
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December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"This diet-related disease problem is not something that we can solve alone at the FDA. This is something that will take a societal movement," says Kyle Diamantas, Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, US FDA
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"The states are definitely the leader” in tackling ultra-processed foods, says Jennifer Pomeranz, Associate Professor at New York University
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December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"The states are definitely the leader” in tackling ultra-processed foods, says Jennifer Pomeranz, Associate Professor at New York University
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"What’s candy? If I’m a SNAP participant and I want to buy an energy bar, am I going to experience a shaming rejection at the checkout counter?" -Robert Paarlberg of Harvard Kennedy School, Wellesley College
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December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"What’s candy? If I’m a SNAP participant and I want to buy an energy bar, am I going to experience a shaming rejection at the checkout counter?" -Robert Paarlberg of Harvard Kennedy School, Wellesley College
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"Healthy soil is where agriculture meets MAHA. There are nutrients in soil that we can’t even measure." -U.S. Senator Roger Marshall
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December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Healthy soil is where agriculture meets MAHA. There are nutrients in soil that we can’t even measure." -U.S. Senator Roger Marshall
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"We’re a sick nation. It’s more than obesity, it’s the inflammatory diet that we have that leads to cancers and autoimmune diseases." -U.S. Senator Roger Marshall
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December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"We’re a sick nation. It’s more than obesity, it’s the inflammatory diet that we have that leads to cancers and autoimmune diseases." -U.S. Senator Roger Marshall
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"People have this view of food banks from 30 years ago that it’s all processed, junk food, but food banks have been a leader in thinking about not just food security but nutrition security." -Dariush Mozaffarian, Food is Medicine Institute
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December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"People have this view of food banks from 30 years ago that it’s all processed, junk food, but food banks have been a leader in thinking about not just food security but nutrition security." -Dariush Mozaffarian, Food is Medicine Institute
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“You can address multiple health outcomes with fresh fruits and vegetables...Nutrition is a cost-effective intervention.” -Radha Muthiah, President and CEO, Capital Area Food Bank
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December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“You can address multiple health outcomes with fresh fruits and vegetables...Nutrition is a cost-effective intervention.” -Radha Muthiah, President and CEO, Capital Area Food Bank
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"About 73% of total healthcare costs for seniors are tied to preventable chronic conditions that are highly related to nutrition," says Anuraag Chigurupati, Devoted Medical
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December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"About 73% of total healthcare costs for seniors are tied to preventable chronic conditions that are highly related to nutrition," says Anuraag Chigurupati, Devoted Medical
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We are LIVE on Capitol Hill for "Eating Ourselves Sick? Ultra-Processed Foods and U.S. Health Policy," in partnership with
@tuftsnutrition.bsky.social.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are LIVE on Capitol Hill for "Eating Ourselves Sick? Ultra-Processed Foods and U.S. Health Policy," in partnership with
@tuftsnutrition.bsky.social.
Tune in now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqr1... #FoodTank
@tuftsnutrition.bsky.social.
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"What do we sacrifice when we choose money and power over our passions? The earth, her people, our food systems."
- Sabrina Servais, Hamburg Hills Farm, Organic Valley #ClimateWeekNYC
- Sabrina Servais, Hamburg Hills Farm, Organic Valley #ClimateWeekNYC
September 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"What do we sacrifice when we choose money and power over our passions? The earth, her people, our food systems."
- Sabrina Servais, Hamburg Hills Farm, Organic Valley #ClimateWeekNYC
- Sabrina Servais, Hamburg Hills Farm, Organic Valley #ClimateWeekNYC
The food system works as intended. It's not broken.
- Azeem Zakir Kareem, Samad Gardens Initiative
- Azeem Zakir Kareem, Samad Gardens Initiative
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The food system works as intended. It's not broken.
- Azeem Zakir Kareem, Samad Gardens Initiative
- Azeem Zakir Kareem, Samad Gardens Initiative
True taste really starts in the soil. Healthier soil creates the most flavorful bourbon.
- Brian Mattingly, Director of Operations for Maker's Mark, Star Hill Farm
- Brian Mattingly, Director of Operations for Maker's Mark, Star Hill Farm
September 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
True taste really starts in the soil. Healthier soil creates the most flavorful bourbon.
- Brian Mattingly, Director of Operations for Maker's Mark, Star Hill Farm
- Brian Mattingly, Director of Operations for Maker's Mark, Star Hill Farm
This is our time to look around and care for other people: you see a person who needs to be fed, feed them.
Right now is the time to come together and make change, says Karen Washington, @riseandrootfarm.bsky.social. The government is not going to bail us out; we can bail out each other.
Right now is the time to come together and make change, says Karen Washington, @riseandrootfarm.bsky.social. The government is not going to bail us out; we can bail out each other.
September 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is our time to look around and care for other people: you see a person who needs to be fed, feed them.
Right now is the time to come together and make change, says Karen Washington, @riseandrootfarm.bsky.social. The government is not going to bail us out; we can bail out each other.
Right now is the time to come together and make change, says Karen Washington, @riseandrootfarm.bsky.social. The government is not going to bail us out; we can bail out each other.
“In the face of disaster and tragedy, there was so much laughter in the kitchen. Cooking together was fun, and it nourished our entire community.”
For Caroline Radice of Black Dog Farm, farming and cooking are about sharing abundance, holding each other through crisis, and finding joy.
For Caroline Radice of Black Dog Farm, farming and cooking are about sharing abundance, holding each other through crisis, and finding joy.
September 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“In the face of disaster and tragedy, there was so much laughter in the kitchen. Cooking together was fun, and it nourished our entire community.”
For Caroline Radice of Black Dog Farm, farming and cooking are about sharing abundance, holding each other through crisis, and finding joy.
For Caroline Radice of Black Dog Farm, farming and cooking are about sharing abundance, holding each other through crisis, and finding joy.
"It's not the COW but the HOW!"
🐄 The cow has been demonized, says Patrick Holden, farmer and founding director @susfoodtrust.bsky.social. #ClimateWeekNYC
🐄 The cow has been demonized, says Patrick Holden, farmer and founding director @susfoodtrust.bsky.social. #ClimateWeekNYC
September 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"It's not the COW but the HOW!"
🐄 The cow has been demonized, says Patrick Holden, farmer and founding director @susfoodtrust.bsky.social. #ClimateWeekNYC
🐄 The cow has been demonized, says Patrick Holden, farmer and founding director @susfoodtrust.bsky.social. #ClimateWeekNYC
🐖 “When my dad said he was ready to quit raising hogs, I couldn’t let that be the end."
April Wilson, Seven W Farm, came home to save the pigs, despite one chewing on her cell phone. #ClimateWeekNYC
April Wilson, Seven W Farm, came home to save the pigs, despite one chewing on her cell phone. #ClimateWeekNYC
September 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🐖 “When my dad said he was ready to quit raising hogs, I couldn’t let that be the end."
April Wilson, Seven W Farm, came home to save the pigs, despite one chewing on her cell phone. #ClimateWeekNYC
April Wilson, Seven W Farm, came home to save the pigs, despite one chewing on her cell phone. #ClimateWeekNYC
"I didn't picture myself farming for an occupation. Time spent away from the farm helped shift our perspectives...
When we left the hospital after my mom died of pancreatic cancer, we did the only thing we knew how: go back to the farm."
- Olivia Fuller, Fuller Acres #ClimateWeekNYC
When we left the hospital after my mom died of pancreatic cancer, we did the only thing we knew how: go back to the farm."
- Olivia Fuller, Fuller Acres #ClimateWeekNYC
September 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"I didn't picture myself farming for an occupation. Time spent away from the farm helped shift our perspectives...
When we left the hospital after my mom died of pancreatic cancer, we did the only thing we knew how: go back to the farm."
- Olivia Fuller, Fuller Acres #ClimateWeekNYC
When we left the hospital after my mom died of pancreatic cancer, we did the only thing we knew how: go back to the farm."
- Olivia Fuller, Fuller Acres #ClimateWeekNYC
"Protecting the soil is investing in food security."
- William Dennehy, Dairy Farmer, County Kerry, Ireland
- William Dennehy, Dairy Farmer, County Kerry, Ireland
September 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Protecting the soil is investing in food security."
- William Dennehy, Dairy Farmer, County Kerry, Ireland
- William Dennehy, Dairy Farmer, County Kerry, Ireland
Land, like love is not meant to be owned, it's meant to be shared.
Beautiful words from Sea Matias, who tells us food is dignity and love.
Beautiful words from Sea Matias, who tells us food is dignity and love.
September 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Land, like love is not meant to be owned, it's meant to be shared.
Beautiful words from Sea Matias, who tells us food is dignity and love.
Beautiful words from Sea Matias, who tells us food is dignity and love.
"Farmers can make magic possible, even with just a seed.”
Stephanie Hsu learned on a small regenerative farm that abundance isn’t about how much money you have; it’s about reciprocity.
Stephanie Hsu learned on a small regenerative farm that abundance isn’t about how much money you have; it’s about reciprocity.
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Farmers can make magic possible, even with just a seed.”
Stephanie Hsu learned on a small regenerative farm that abundance isn’t about how much money you have; it’s about reciprocity.
Stephanie Hsu learned on a small regenerative farm that abundance isn’t about how much money you have; it’s about reciprocity.