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Civil Eats is a daily news platform focused on important discussions surrounding the American food system. We share articles that encourage new perspectives on sustainable farming, aiming to foster communities that are fair both economically and socially. Established in January 2009, Civil Eats serves as a community hub with more than 100 contributors who are engaged in the changing food scene from Washington, D.C. to local neighborhoods. In 2014, Civil Eats was honored as the Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation.

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House Budget Plan Would Cut SNAP Spending, Increase Funding for Commodity Agriculture

2 days ago | civileats.com | Lisa Elaine Held

May 13, 2025 – Last night, House Agriculture Committee Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) revealed a plan to dramatically cut federal spending on food aid while increasing aid to commodity farmers. The provisions—which lawmakers are currently working on as part of the budget reconciliation process—would cut $290 billion in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and increase subsidies for commodity farms by about $60 billion.
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Amid Immigration Crackdowns, Lawmakers Reintroduce Farm Workforce Reforms

3 days ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

May 12, 2025 – House lawmakers have resurrected a bill to help bolster immigrant farm labor amid Trump administration crackdowns on immigrants that have swept up farmworkers and labor organizers. In a bipartisan effort, Representatives Dan Newhouse (R-Washington) and Zoe Lofgren (D-California) last week reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bill that would provide pathways for non-citizens to legally work on farms while reforming the H-2A visa program.
FDA and NIH Announce New Food and Nutrition Research Agenda

3 days ago | civileats.com | Lisa Elaine Held

May 12, 2025 – On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they’ll collaborate on a new agenda for nutrition research that will prioritize understanding how ultra-processed foods and food additives harm Americans’ health. FDA and NIH are sub-agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Their joint Nutrition Regulatory Science Program will play a key role in Secretary Robert F.
Protests Mount Against ICE Detentions of Immigrant Farmworkers

1 week ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

The union has been organizing demonstrations all week, following the arrests of 14 farmworkers in western New York last Friday. They are organizing at an ICE detention center in Batavia, New York, today to “demand the release of detained farmworker leaders,” according to calls to action from the UFW.
Member Profile: Liz Ross Cultivates Change in Caribbean Food Culture

1 week ago | civileats.com | Jim Colgan

Ross identifies the “seeds” that shaped her own life. Probably the most important influence was her family’s food and farming lineage. Her parents owned a 250-acre cacao farm in Tobago and her family’s cooking was rich in organic fruits and vegetables, much of it from their home garden in Trinidad. “When it came to eating animal products, it was very rare,” she says. Food permeated the culture. “It’s in our music, it’s in our literature,” she said.
Trump Nominates Food-Focused Health Entrepreneur Casey Means for Surgeon General

1 week ago | civileats.com | Lisa Elaine Held

May 8, 2025 – Yesterday, President Trump nominated Casey Means as the country’s top doctor. Means, a health entrepreneur who advocates for changing food choices and farm practices, and her brother Calley Means have been fixtures of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement since last fall. As surgeon general, she’d join her brother at HHS, where he is a special advisor to Kennedy.
House Democrats Say SNAP Cuts Will Hurt Families, Farmers, and Broader Food System

1 week ago | civileats.com | Lisa Elaine Held

May 7, 2025 – At a press conference on Capitol Hill today, Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee railed against Republican plans to cut spending on food aid, emphasizing that funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) supports hungry families as well as farmers, grocery workers, truckers, and food manufacturers.
Proposal Could Threaten Endangered Species’ Survival in Farm Country

1 week ago | civileats.com | Brian Calvert

The Trump administration is proposing a significant change to one of the country’s most important—and contentious—environmental laws, which could give farmers more leeway to use pesticides without regard to their impact on critical habitats.
Rollins Defends USDA's Local Food Cuts and Funding Freeze, Says She Will Move Staff Out of DC

1 week ago | civileats.com | Lisa Elaine Held

May 6, 2025 – During her first appearance in front of Congress as Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins defended both USDA’s funding freeze and cuts to local food programs, research, and staff. She also said she’ll unveil a plan to move more USDA staff out of Washington, D.C. within the next few weeks. The hearing today in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s agriculture subcommittee was scheduled to question Rollins about the President’s budget, released Friday.