When it comes to food and agriculture policy, “we know very little about where the candidates stand,” says Huffington Post’s Joseph Erbentraut. “None of the presidential campaigns responded to our eight-question survey” on public nutrition, school lunches and farm subsidies.
Two other entities, Food Policy Action and Food Tank, also got the cold shoulder, says HuffPost, adding, “The candidates’ inattention to food issues comes at a time when Americans appear to be more interested than perhaps ever before in where their meals come from.”
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have issued position papers on rural America that answer some but not all of the questions in HuffPost survey, wrote Erbentraut. Sanders also spoke against a federal override of state GMO food-labeling laws.