NYC Food Policy, Hunter College

• Plans to Increase US Food Production to Offset Shortages and High Costs (nycfoodpolicy.org)

• Chilis on Wheels: Plant Based Activism and Community Development (nycfoodpolicy.org)

• ICYMI: What’s a CSA? A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture (nycfoodpolicy.org)

Food Policy Weekly News Digest

NYC Food News

• New York SNAP Households to Receive Maximum Food Benefits in May (Pix 11)

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks About Green Bronx Machine’s Win-Win-Win Model (Green Bronx Machine)

• Baby Formula Shortage Hits NYC Parents, Special Needs Kids Hard (New York Post)

• New Report Finds NYC Child Hunger Remains 55% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels (Pix 11)

• The Youngest New Yorkers Must Not Go Hungry (New York Daily News)

• NYC Street Food Vendors: ‘We’re Not Hurting Anyone’ (Civil Eats)

• Arrest of Vendor at Brooklyn Subway Station Touches off Debate on Police Action (Brooklyn Eagle)

• NYC ‘Strongly Recommends’ Masking In Public Indoor Settings Again (Eater)

• NYC Eases 118 Regulatory Requirements for Restaurants (Restaurant Business Online)

• Two Years Later, How COVID Changed the Restaurant Business on Staten Island (SI Live)

• Labor Advocates and New York Pols Tout Minimum Wage Increase as Weapon to Fight Inflation (amNY)

• NYC Airport Bars Can’t Charge You $27 for a Beer Anymore Thanks to New Food Pricing Rules (Food & Wine)

• Applebee’s, IHOP Workers Rally in Midtown to Get an Increase in Minimum Wage (CBS)

• Wife of Slain NYC Food Deliveryman Zhiwen Yan Calls for Justice at Vigil (New York Post)

• Rethink Food CEO Teams With Brookfield to Open Campus at Landmark New York Development (CoStar)

• The Upstate Farm Growing Specialty Produce for NYC Restaurants (Edible Manhattan)

• New York Colleges Grow Food and Flowers in Hydroponic Classrooms (Horti Daily)

• New York City Launches First Food and Climate Dashboard and Shows Just How Bad Meat is For The Environment (One Green Planet)

• NYC Celebrates First ‘MeatOut Day’ (The Ticker)

• The Unlikely Ascent of New York’s Compost Champion (New York Times)

• How One Chef Is Changing the Narrative of West African Cuisine (Edible Manhattan)

• New York Prisons Set to Ban Most Packages from Family and Friends (New York Focus)

• Rat Sightings Surge as New Yorkers Emerge From Pandemic (New York Post)

• Grubhub Sparks Chaos After Its Offer of a Free Lunch for the Whole of New York City Crashes the System and Leaves Countless Customers Hungry (Fortune)

• 5 Things: Only 8% Of NYC Workers Back in Offices Full-Time, Survey Finds (Food Management)

Baby Formula Shortage

• Infant Formula: What’s the Shortage Really About? (Food Politics)

• White House Announces Steps to Combat Infant Formula Shortage (Politico)

• F.D.A. and Abbott Reach Agreement on Baby Formula to Try to Ease Shortage (New York Times)

• More Than 40% Of Baby Formula Out of Stock, Data Company Says (Marketplace)

• The Baby Formula Shortage: What Can Be Done (New York Times)

• The Baby-Formula Shortage Keeps Getting Worse (The Cut)

• Why Doctors Don’t Recommend Homemade Baby Formula (New York Times)

• Former FDA Chief: Issues at Baby Formula Plant Went ‘Back Many Years’ (New York Post)

• Republicans Wrongly Tie Biden Immigration Policies to Baby Formula Shortage (New York Times)

Buffalo Supermarket Shooting

• Buffalo Supermarket Targeted in Mass Shooting Was Oasis in a ‘Food Desert’ (The Guardian)

• Buffalo Shooting: Suspect Invited Others to Review His Plan (New York Times)

• Here’s How To Help The Buffalo Community Now In A Food Desert After The Shooting (Essence)

Food Insecurity

• Food Insecurity Rises as Families Lose Child Tax Credit Payments, Data Shows (NBC)

• The Good News About Food Delivery (New York Times)

• Food Insecurity Is a Bigger Problem Than Energy (Financial Times)

• ‘I Cannot Survive on $260 a Week’: US Retail and Fast-Food Workers Strike (The Guardian)

• California Is Moving Toward Food Assistance for All Populations—Including Undocumented Immigrants (The Counter)

• California’s Undocumented Children Are Going Hungry (The Nation)

• Blinken to Highlight Food Security in U.N. Meetings (Reuters)

• ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to Ensure Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems (UN News)

• Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a New York Foreign Press Center Briefing on Global Food Security (United States Mission to the United Nations)

• College Campus Food Insecurity Prompts $100k Donation From Stop and Shop (NBC)

• Older Americans Month: Understanding Food Insecurity Among Older Adults (Food & Research Action Center)

Food Business and Supply Chain

• Consumers ‘Laser-Focused’ on Discounts as Food Prices Hit Four-Decade High (Food Dive)

• Op-ed: Food Price Spikes Are About Much More than Ukraine (Civil Eats)

• Meat Processors Used ‘Baseless’ Claims of Shortages to Keep Plants Open During COVID-19: Report (Food Dive)

• Walmart Profits Drop, Dragged Down by Higher Costs for Food and Fuel (New York Times)

• You Won’t Be Able to Get a Big Mac in Moscow Ever Again (New York Magazine)

• KFC is Expanding its Vegan Fried Chicken Options. Here’s Where (The Beet)

• Shake Shack Is Testing These Plant-Based Dessert Items in New York & Florida (Thrillist)

• India Isn’t the Only One Banning Food Exports. These Countries Are Doing the Same (CNBC)

• Skipping Meals and Shrinking Portions — Brits Are Being Warned of ‘Apocalyptic’ Food Price Rises (CNBC)

• UK Delays Ban on Get-One-Free Junk Food Deals as Inflation Soars (Bloomberg)

Restaurants, Retail, and Food Workers

• Starbucks Union: Are Labor Unions Good For Public Companies? (Forbes)

• The Pandemic Has Transformed America’s Dining Landscape Into an Oligopoly Dominated by Chains (The Counter)

• Study: Independent Restaurants Show Signs of Recovery Despite Inflation (Restaurant Dive)

• Starbucks to Cover Travel for Employees Seeking Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care (Restaurant Dive)

• Why Mario Batali’s Acquittal Feels Hollow (Eater)

• People Are Using Job Listings to Sabotage Companies That Mistreat Their Workers (Vice)

• When Should You Tip? (New York Times)

• Consumer Price Index: How Much More Did You Pay To Eat Out Because of Inflation in April 2022? (Go Banking Rates)

• Are ‘Climate-Friendly’ Options on Restaurant Menus Coming Soon? (WebMD)

Food and the Environment

• World Leaders Called On to Stop Animal Farming, Switch to Plant-Based (The Beet)

• To Solve the Fertilizer Crisis, Just Look in the Toilet (Washington Post)

• Plant-Based Food Brands Join Forces to Fight Plastic Waste (Globe Newswire)

• Ben & Jerry’s Puts Cows on a Special Diet to Curb Methane Emissions (Treehugger)

• Your Car Is Killing Coho Salmon (The Counter)

• Fires, Floods and Food Security: How Climate Change Became a Local Issue This Election (The Guardian)

Food Tech

• Fresh Food Fridges Support Medical Center’s Staff With 24/7 Service (Food Management)

• Food Delivery Needs Tech Support in Some Neighborhoods (Axios)

• Uber to Test Delivering Food With Robots (CNN)

Farming and Agriculture

• President Biden Calls on Farmers to Double Crop in Face of Food Insecurity (Modern Farmer)

• Oregon Adopts Nation’s Strongest Farmworker Protections for Heat and Wildfire Smoke (Civil Eats)

• Measuring the True Amount of Food Loss on Farms (Modern Farmer)

• Argentina Becomes First Country to Authorize Planting GMO Wheat (Successful Farming)

• Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil (NASA)

Food Safety and Public Health

• Committee’s Disinterest in Food Safety May Be Reason for Delaying Confirmation (Food Safety News)

• Children ‘Food Poisoned After Fridges Are Turned Off’ (BBC)

• Parents of Girl Who Died After Eating Pret Sandwich Launch Food Allergy Study (The Guardian)

• Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Salmonella Spur FDA to Crack Down on Some Food Imports (Food Safety News)

• Junk Food: Obesity Strategy Falling Apart, Jamie Oliver Says (BBC)

• Scathing Report on Meat Packing Industry v. Public Health (Food Politics)

NYC Neighborhood Food Resource Guides

• The Center has created 59 Neighborhood Food Resource Guides. Click HERE to find your neighborhood.
• The Center’s guides have been updated by more than 300 volunteers who have spent thousands of hours making more than 200,000 calls to keep data up-to-date.

Food Policy Research and Reports Digest

• Adults’ Exposure to Unhealthy Food and Beverage Marketing: A Multi-country Study in Australia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States (The Journal of Nutrition)

• Characterizing and Assessing the School Food Environment: A Scoping Review Protocol (University of the Sunshine Coast Research Bank)

• ‘When You Heal the Soil…’: Environmental Racism and Socioecological Repair in Contemporary Urban Agriculture (Environmental Sociology)

• “Now to Get Rid of Those Pesky Health Departments!”: How the Trump Administration Helped the Meatpacking Industry Block Pandemic Worker Protections (House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis)

• Discursive Framing in Policies for Restricting the Marketing of Food and Non-alcoholic Beverages (Food Policy)