Massachusetts food banks receive $13.2M in grants to combat hunger
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
2/11/2021 - Sunderland - Energy and Environmental Affairs secretary Kathleen Theoharides talks about food security grants in the Commonwealth Thursday afternoon at Riverland Farm in Sunderland. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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SUNDERLAND The state has awarded more than $13.2 million in grants to address urgent food insecurity resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
The funding is part of the Food Security Infrastructure Grant Program, created following recommendations from the state COVID-19 Command Center’s Food Security Task Force, which promotes ongoing efforts to ensure everyone has access to healthy, local food.
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Nine months into the pandemic, even with vaccines on the way, it is evident that its impacts will be with us for years to come. The most basic aspects of our lives have been upended, including how we feed ourselves. More and more people must rely on emergency food distributions many of whom are the same people who are still working, often in unsafe conditions, to grow, pack, process, ship, and sell our food. The weaknesses of our national industrial food system have been laid bare.