“The policy ideas and recommendations outlined in this report are a critical first step to achieving a healthier and hunger free America. Statement from Task Force Co-chair Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Food Systems for the Future Former Executive Director, World Food Programme This is only the beginning, there is still a lot of work to be done." By listening to the people, policy experts and advocates, this Report provides a roadmap to enacting bold changes to increase access to healthy, nutritious food for all Americans, while ensuring those changes protect the dignity of all people. "This Report is one of many necessary efforts to build longer tables and combat hunger in America and the world. S tatement from Task Force Co-chair José Andrés, Founder and Chief Feeding Officer, World Central Kitchen Founder, ThinkFoodGroup The Task Force believes that these efforts - while not formally requested nor endorsed by the White House - can help elevate the best ideas across the United States to catalyze historic, transformational solutions to some of the greatest challenges around food facing the nation. The Task Force members are banded together in their unwavering belief in the paramount importance of taking decisive action to achieve transformative change to end food insecurity and hunger, improve nutrition, and reduce diet-related diseases.
The Report also includes 12 recommended actions and commitments for the private sector to support these goals.Īdvancing the bold, high-impact agenda outlined in the Report calls for political will and bipartisan solutions from the White House, Congress, specific federal agencies, state and local governments, non-government organizations, and the private sector. It contains 30 high-priority policy recommendations, undergirded by more than 200 specific actions for the federal agencies, Congress, and other stakeholders, to end hunger, advance nutrition, and reduce diet-related conditions in the United States. The Report has been shared with the White House and is now being publicly released. In addition to the Task Force itself - comprising leaders from academia, civil society, government, and the private sector - the report was informed by a review of more than 75 existing policy reports a Strategy Group of approximately two dozen national organizations that provided a broader reflection of views and issues across America discussions at three in-person national policy convenings held in different parts of the country that brought together more than 240 multi-sector leaders and stakeholders and more than 15 listening sessions planned with communities around the nation to center the knowledge and perspectives of individuals with diverse lived experiences around hunger, poor nutrition, and diet-related diseases. food and nutrition policy since the original White House Conference report in 1969. The Task Force Report represents the most far-reaching, consensus-based recommendations from diverse perspectives on U.S. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause.Today, the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health (Task Force) - an independent group of national leaders and experts convened by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Food Systems for the Future, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and World Central Kitchen - publicly released its comprehensive Report to inform the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health - the first conference of its kind held since 1969. My error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image used in that post from an internet search for a “GOP elephant”. Once made aware of the negative portion of the picture I immediately replaced it and followed up with an apology/explanation the next day. The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent. I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that- an unintended mistake. I look forward to continuing to strive to give every student in Lawrence County the best opportunity to be successful. The voters of District Four elected me to represent them and I am proud of the accomplishments of this administration over the past six years. I will not be resigning from my elected office on the Lawrence County School Board. Lawrence County GOP Chairman Shanon Terry said in a Thursday statement:
The party’s chairman said he has no plans to step down from his role on the county’s school board. (WAFF) - The Lawrence County Republican Party is facing scrutiny from the Alabama House minority leader and the NAACP after posting an image of the GOP elephant that had Ku Klux Klan symbolism in it.