Julie Kelly and
Jeff Stier March 31, 2015
Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio probably doesn't cook much these days. Having built his reputation preparing expensive entrĂ©es for his well-heeled customers at Craft Restaurants, Colicchio is now cooking up liberal food policy to expand the government's ever-encroaching role in how we eat……. Colicchio co-founded Food Policy Action, a PAC that scores lawmakers on how liberal they vote on food issues. Far from reflecting a consensus of top food and nutrition experts, the FPA scorecard represents a narrow view of some of the nation's most ideologically divisive activists.
The group grades House
members and senators on whether they "promote policies that support
healthy diets, reduce hunger at home and abroad, improve food access and
affordability, uphold the rights and dignity of food and farm workers . . . and
reduce the environmental impact of farming and food production."
The
implication is that members of Congress who don't agree with Colicchio and his
leftist cohort oppose healthy food and the reduction of hunger and are
indifferent to degradation of the environment…….Colicchio's comparison of the food movement with social and political struggles
of the past: "At some point, we need to take this social movement and turn
it into a political movement," "It's what happened in other social movements as well, whether
it was civil rights or whether it was marriage equality."......To Read More....
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