Students Campaign for Federal Food Policy Reform

Oliver Edelson ’18 is anxiously awaiting the outcome of Tuesday’s election. He says one of the most important things the next U.S. president can do is fix the nation’s “broken” food system.

That’s also the mission of a new national organization called Plate of the Union, which is calling for the reform of food and farm policies at the federal level. Taking its campaign to college campuses, Plate of the Union held a competitive grant competition, and Dartmouth’s Growing Change, a student organization, was one of four finalists nationwide. Led by Edelson, the group won $2,500 to fund a series of campus events exploring ways to make healthy, locally grown food more affordable and accessible while improving the lives of farm workers and mitigating climate change.

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