Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2020/05/usda-gets-its-long-sought-harvest-boxes/
Remember “Harvest Boxes”? This was USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue’s method for replacing SNAP benefits with boxes of food commodities (see my much earlier post on this).
The idea was widely ridiculed at the time (impractical, logistically expensive, condescending), but the Covid-19 pandemic has resuscitated the plan.
It won’t be called Harvest Boxes. Instead, welcome to the $3 billion “Farmers to Families Food Box Program.”
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Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2020/05/usda-gets-its-long-sought-harvest-boxes/
Remember “Harvest Boxes”? This was USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue’s method for replacing SNAP benefits with boxes of food commodities (see my much earlier post on this).
The idea was widely ridiculed at the time (impractical, logistically expensive, condescending), but the Covid-19 pandemic has resuscitated the plan.
It won’t be called Harvest Boxes. Instead, welcome to the $3 billion “Farmers to Families Food Box Program.”
…
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