Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
Sep 21, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
Food Tank is live all week at WNYC-NPR's The Greene Space to talk solutions for food, agriculture, and environment during Climate Week NYC. In this episode, we're sharing two conversations from our…
Nikki BudzinskiGuest
Maxine DexterGuest
Dani NierenbergHost
Melanie StansburyGuest
Jackie SuggittGuest
Andrea SalinasGuest
Julie GehrkiGuest
W- what's, where do you see momentum on these issues in Congress right now? Do you want to go first?
... right now under the current leadership, not only have they canceled the majority of our voting days this year, they are explicitly going after food and hunger programs.
They already last year, under what I call the big ugly bill, the one big beautiful bill, made the most draconian cuts to SNAP and food assistance that this country has seen since the 1960s.
Just in the last year, over five million Americans have lost access to food because of those cuts.
The vast majority of which, and this is what we're seeing in New Mexico, are seniors and people on fixed incomes and people with disabilities.
... trying to get across the finish line, even this December, that they want to cut those programs even more.
And so even though I know we're here to have a policy discussion, I hope every single one of you is registered to vote-
... knows where to vote, and understands that the only way we're gonna fix any of this is by taking back the House and fixing our country politically.
[claps]
W- what's, where do you see momentum on these issues in Congress right now? Do you want to go first?
... right now under the current leadership, not only have they canceled the majority of our voting days this year, they are explicitly going after food and hunger programs.
They already last year, under what I call the big ugly bill, the one big beautiful bill, made the most draconian cuts to SNAP and food assistance that this country has seen since the 1960s.
Just in the last year, over five million Americans have lost access to food because of those cuts.
The vast majority of which, and this is what we're seeing in New Mexico, are seniors and people on fixed incomes and people with disabilities.
... trying to get across the finish line, even this December, that they want to cut those programs even more.
And so even though I know we're here to have a policy discussion, I hope every single one of you is registered to vote-
... knows where to vote, and understands that the only way we're gonna fix any of this is by taking back the House and fixing our country politically.
[claps]
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