The Chef Action Network is on the same page with Food Policy Action, says Politico. Both are recent creations with a food-movement orientation and both hope to influence lawmakers. A group of top chefs is to deliver a petition on Tuesday in support of a federal law to label GMO foods. Bills are pending on both sides of the issue but considered unlikely to see action during the lame duck session.
Congress is due to reauthorize child nutrition programs in 2015. “The school lunch debate will be a big test for the culinary political network, but it’s only one of a long list of food policies the chefs are looking to be active on. In addition to the upcoming advocacy for mandatory GMO labeling, organizers are starting to lay the groundwork for getting more local food support in the next farm bill, which is at least four years away,” writes Helena Bottemiller Evich of Politico.