A Primer on SNAP with Joel Berg of Hunger Fre...

We’re closing out the season with a look at “True Cost Accounting.” There is a growing movement to include “true cost accounting” or TCA when considering the cost of food -- which can be far more than what you pay in a supermarket. Our guest today, food journalist and The Farm Re ...  Show more

Tom and Food Research and Action Center Ellen Vollinger and Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern discuss the historic permanent increase to the decades-old Thrifty Food Plan coming in October 2021.Follow Tom on Twitter and Instagram @tomcolicchio and share what you want to hear ...  Show more

Is hunger in America a choice?This week, over 40 million people worried about losing their SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. But with Thanksgiving just around the corner, who's hurt most by hunger? And why do some believe that if you’re hungry, it’s your fault? Britta ...  Show more

On "Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg," U.S. Congressmember Jim McGovern, who represents the 2nd Congressional District in Massachusetts. They discuss the state of food policy in America and the progress we have—and haven't—made as a country; why hunger is a political c ...

The FEED Act was introduced in May and would help put restaurant kitchens to work feeding vulnerable Americans, including children who can’t return to school. It counts celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen José Andrés among its champions — but it’s stalled along wi ...  Show more

We need to talk about hunger. After seven decades of a decline in mass death from starvation, starvation is now a reality for millions of people. And most of this starvation is not due to natural disasters but man-made. In this episode of EJIL: The Podcast, EJIL Editor in Chief S ...  Show more