Corby Kummer: "Hunger is a Bipartisan Issue"

This September, the White House will be hosting its Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health for the first time in over 50 years. Award-winning food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio on Monday to share his thoughts on the return of the Conference, and the Biden administration’s goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030.

“I think that hunger is a bipartisan issue,” Kummer said. “I am incredibly optimistic about this.”

“There's always the tension between the urban needs for food and nutrition assistance and the rural needs for enormous crop insurance assistance,” Kummer continued. “That coalition has held, [and] it will continue to hold. That means that overall, there is bipartisan support that will result in nutrition assistance, [and] how better to wield it.”

Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.