Of the global food import bill, countries are estimated to 10% more from last year for foodstuffs. In other words, food prices are affecting food security for people all across the globe.

You can now watch every plenary and panel session from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health here.

Here at Food Equality Initiative, our mission is to fight for nutrition security and health equity for all. Food insecurity affects 42 million Americans right now, what about nutrition insecurity? What is the difference between food security and nutrition security?

The sooner we can get people the medicine they need in the form of healthy food, the sooner we can improve public health.

In food allergy, we sometimes forget to think of food in a positive sense; that food can actually make you feel better. Food is medicine for food allergies.

It takes collaboration with a registered dietician to learn how to eat gluten free in a way that nourishes the body. Food is medicine for celiac disease.

Food is medicine for EoE in the sense that it is broadening people’s viewpoints to think outside the box: ‘hey, my child is being treated, it just isn’t a pill.'

Medicine was traditionally viewed as a drug, but we are understanding more that healthy food is medicine and should be made more accessible.Medicine was traditionally viewed as a drug, but we are understanding more that healthy food is medicine and should be made more accessible.

Food Equality Initiative signed on to a letter of support, urging Kansas lawmakers to pass a straight-forward bill to end the food tax. 

Nearly 40 states require some type of coverage for necessary medical nutrition. However, not everyone meets this coverage.

Nehgar said, "I would love to do anything to help families across the nation, because it is really necessary. People are struggling."

Dawn said: I need to go to advocate. Someone can benefit from my story. People need to know what it is like to be an adult with food allergies.

In order to get the free-from foods their bodies require, food allergic and celiac individuals have to spend a lot more on grocery shopping.

Thank you so much for joining us for part one of our new webinar series, Food Laws: Intro to Changemaking.

This bill is a comprehensive effort to address numerous food labeling issues to require that food product packaging must disclose gluten-containing grains. 

Epinephrine auto-injectors are devices used to deliver life-saving medication called epinephrine, also known as adrenaline.

Food Equality Initiative signed on to a letter directed to Steven Hahn, Commission of Food and Drugs at the US Food and Drug Administration to add sesame as 9th top allergen.

Schools are required to accommodate all levels of food allergy at lunch because this is widely interpreted as a disability which is protected by law from discrimination.

Our founder, Emily Brown, has been nothing but busy since stay at home orders began.

Thank you for joining us for our webinar, For the Health: A Conversation on Race and Food Allergy. Our first installment brought together expert Black voices in the food allergy space.