{"id":3305,"date":"2017-08-04T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/2017\/08\/04\/press-release-food-bankers-advocate-for-the-hungry-at-farm-bill-listening-session\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:30:04","slug":"press-release-food-bankers-advocate-for-the-hungry-at-farm-bill-listening-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/statement\/press-release-food-bankers-advocate-for-the-hungry-at-farm-bill-listening-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Comunicado de prensa: Los banqueros de alimentos defienden a los hambrientos en la sesi\u00f3n de escucha de la ley agr\u00edcola"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/farmfest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/farmfest.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/farmfest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/farmfest-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/farmfest-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>The national Farm Bill listening tour makes a stop in Modesto on Saturday, August 5 and California Association of Food Banks, the statewide representative of California food banks, is providing testimony on the importance of nutrition programs in the bill. The primary focus of their testimony is supporting the preservation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cEsperamos brindarles a los miembros del Comit\u00e9 una imagen real del \u00e9xito de CalFresh en California\u201d, dijo Rachel Tucker, asociada senior de pol\u00edticas de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Bancos de Alimentos de California. &quot;Este programa es la mejor protecci\u00f3n que tenemos para evitar que las personas vivan una vida sin alimentos nutritivos&quot;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hunger and lack of nutrition pose a significant threat to California\u2019s future. For the 4.9&nbsp;million Californians struggling with food insecurity, hard choices must be made between buying food and meeting such basic needs as housing, medicine, transportation, or childcare. When the resources of friends and family are depleted, struggling families must turn to programs like CalFresh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cSi bien los bancos de alimentos brindan un servicio incre\u00edble a sus comunidades, no pueden absorber las consecuencias que ocurrir\u00edan si la estructura del programa SNAP cambia o los beneficios se recortan en la Ley Agr\u00edcola\u201d, explic\u00f3 Tucker.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>La Ley Agr\u00edcola se origin\u00f3 en 1933 como parte de la legislaci\u00f3n del New Deal del presidente Roosevelt como una forma de apoyar a los agricultores, garantizar que las personas tengan acceso a alimentos a buen precio y proteger los recursos naturales. Ahora tiene un papel fundamental en el sistema alimentario de Estados Unidos; apoyando todo, desde la nutrici\u00f3n hasta las econom\u00edas locales y la salud.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>El proyecto de ley tiene un ciclo de cinco a\u00f1os. Una vez que expira el proyecto de ley actual, pasa por las revisiones propuestas que luego son debatidas y aprobadas en el Congreso antes de ser promulgadas por el presidente.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national Farm Bill listening tour makes a stop in Modesto on Saturday, August 5 and California Association of Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6,9,11,110],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement","tag-advocacy","tag-farm-bill","tag-federal-policy","tag-listening-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3776,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}