202: How Multiple System Failures Affect Food Access?
About the Podcast
In this final episode of the Food as Power series, Clancy speaks with Victoria Zapata, the National Program Manager of Food Rescue US, about their mission to reduce food waste and break down barriers to fresh food options for those impacted by food insecurities. Don’t miss this powerful discussion on the role of food as power, the issue of excess in food, and the systemic failures contributing to hunger and food insecurity.
About Victoria Zapata
Victoria Zapata has over a decade of Executive support experience in top financial firms in New York and Washington, D.C. She has a background in communications and a passion for helping others. She is now the National Program Manager of Food Rescue US.
Discussion Takeaways
- Food Rescue US is an organization that has a digital platform that connects volunteers to food recovery opportunities.
- Food insecurity and poverty are not an identity. It is an experience or a temporary circumstance.
- There is an issue with the industrialization of our food. It is being overproduced, unregulated, and charged whatever the producer wants.
- Food is being used as power when people in power don't want to play nice and if anyone is putting a condition to access food.
- Hunger is the result of multiple system failures. Many people have created an idea of what hunger is based on income guidelines set by USDA.
- Food access used to be simple. It is not about building more funding and granting opportunities.
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Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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