All posts of HEAL Staff

In Defense of Our Food System, Workers, and Environment: HEAL Transition Memo

TO: Members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate FROM: HEAL Food Alliance DATE: December 9, 2024 SUBJECT: In Defense of Our Food System, Workers, and Environment Over the last four years, you have helped us push the Biden-Harris Administration to advance food and farm systems that are good for […]
1 year ago

Ten Bills to Create Dignity and Safe Working Conditions for Food and Farm Workers

By Nichelle Harriott, Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance This piece serves as the second blog of the series “Agricultural Workers, Essential but Excluded,” in partnership with Union of Concerned Scientists  Food and farm workers touch every part of our food system: they plant and harvest crops, process meat and poultry, conduct food safety inspections, stock […]
1 year ago

Sowing Collective Care – HEAL’s 2024 Rapid Response Fund Impact Report

  Download HEAL’s 2024 Rapid Response Fund Report   A fruitful and abundant garden depends on the many interconnected parts of its ecosystem – energy from the sun, water from the sky, nutrients from the earth, and even other plants’ components – to thrive. Launched amidst the chaos of 2020, HEAL’s Rapid Response Fund is […]
1 year ago

HEAL Food Alliance Endorses Chairwoman Stabenow’s Farm Bill for Rural Prosperity and Urges Swift Bipartisan Action

HEAL FOOD ALLIANCE ENDORSES CHAIRWOMAN STABENOW’S FARM BILL FOR RURAL PROSPERITY AND URGES SWIFT BIPARTISAN ACTION The Senate farm bill includes key HEAL priorities, such as support for small farmers, climate resilience, and nutrition assistance, but falls short on worker protections.  November 18, 2024 NATIONAL – With just weeks left in her tenure, U.S. Senate […]
1 year ago
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A Call for Radical Solidarity and Care: The Impact of the Supreme Court Decisions

By Navina Khanna, Executive Director, HEAL Food Alliance The recent Supreme Court rulings are a stark reminder that it will take all of us to change systems that were never designed for us. From turning courts into policymakers to giving presidents near-total immunity from prosecution, these latest opinions advance a worldview that values corporate profits […]
1 year ago
HEAL members at DC Rally for Resilience in 2023

HEAL Food Alliance Opposes Policies in House Farm Bill, Including Exclusion of Workers, Cuts to SNAP, and Removal of Support for Climate-Related Programs

May 17, 2024 – Today, after an extreme delay, the House Agriculture Committee released its 2024 Farm Bill, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024. The HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance opposes the committee’s short-sighted recommendations for the bill. Even with the delay, the House Farm Bill falls far short of […]
2 years ago

Farmers, Food and Farm Groups Oppose Partisan Efforts to Weaken New Federal Rule Addressing Discrimination in Agricultural Lending

NATIONAL (May 15, 2024) – Today, 130 organizations including the HEAL (Health, Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance, the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Rural Coalition, the Center for Responsible Lending, and Self-Help, a national CDFI, sent a letter to Congress opposing multiple targeted efforts by Republican lawmakers to weaken, overturn, and provide exemptions to Rule […]
2 years ago