China transformed from 1980s food scarcity to today's overwhelming abundance through its Vegetable Basket Program. A combination of mayors being personally responsible for food supply, grassroots greenhouse innovations enabling year-round growth, and a "Green Channel" policy creates a massive logistics network. The result is incredibly cheap produce at a staggering scale.

https://pandayoo.com/post/chinas-vegetable-basket-program-how-a-nation-achieved-food-abundance/

#china #food

Welcome to Malden, Saigon Corner! 🍜

✨As a Board Member of the Malden Chamber of Commerce, I was honored to attend the ribbon ✂️cutting alongside the Mayor, the owners’ family, and fellow Chamber members.

📍 Visit them at 249 Highland Avenue and experience their vibrant style and delicious Hong Kong-style flavors. Wishing them great success as they join our growing small business community.

#restaurant #food #cuisine #newbusiness #Northshorema #SmallBusiness #foodie #community

Earlier: In a state where one in ten depend on SNAP benefits, #food banks are a vital lifeline for hungry residents. And they've just lost 10s of millions in federal funding. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-texas-food-banks/

#hunger #SNAP #poverty #Trump #politics #USpol #news #economy #Texas

"The 42 million Americans who rely on nutrition assistance are in danger of going without benefits to help them afford #food if the #GovernmentShutdown drags on after November 1. But that’s not because the government lacks the money to fund benefits. It’s because the #TrumpAdministration is flouting the law by refusing to release the funds."

https://prospect.org/2025/10/29/trump-illegally-withholding-food-from-needy-families-snap/

#SNAP

New York declares state of emergency to issue food banks $65m amid shutdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/new-york-food-banks-emergency-shutdown #USfederalgovernmentshutdown2025 #USfederalgovernmentshutdowns #Trumpadministration #Foodpoverty #DonaldTrump #Virginia #NewYork #Oregon #USnews #Food

Earlier: In a state where one in ten depend on SNAP benefits, #food banks are a vital lifeline for hungry residents. And they've just lost 10s of millions in federal funding. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-cuts-texas-food-banks/

#hunger #SNAP #poverty #Trump #politics #USpol #news #economy #Texas

New York declares state of emergency to issue food banks $65m amid shutdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/new-york-food-banks-emergency-shutdown #USfederalgovernmentshutdown2025 #USfederalgovernmentshutdowns #Trumpadministration #Foodpoverty #DonaldTrump #Virginia #NewYork #Oregon #USnews #Food

"Johnson’s one client is not his constituents but Donald Trump. And Trump does not want the federal government to ever reopen."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #MikeJohnson #food #SNAP #healthcare
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trump-doesnt-ever-want-the-government

That destruction is crystallized and illustrated in the starkest way possible in his razing of a wing of the White House to build a guilded ballroom as he chooses to withhold support for food to hungry families and children.

Please don't tell me you can justify all this in the name of Jesus Christ.

Because you can't.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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That destruction is crystallized and illustrated in the starkest way possible in his razing of a wing of the White House to build a guilded ballroom as he chooses to withhold support for food to hungry families and children.

Please don't tell me you can justify all this in the name of Jesus Christ.

Because you can't.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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White Christians own the Trump presidency, having voted — across the board from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics — three times in the majority for Trump.

And for his cruelty visited on children, immigrants, his critics… And for his destruction of longstanding norms of decency and respect for the Constitution that keep democracy going.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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"Arkansas is religiously an evangelical Christian state; Southern Baptists are the largest evangelical denomination in existence; and 80 percent of evangelicals countrywide vote MAGA. …

I am not a MAGA supporter. I think MAGA is an abomination and scourge on not only the Republican Party but America, and certainly evangelical Christianity."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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She answers her critic thoughtfully, refusing to cede ground on the well-documented fact that a very large percentage of white evangelicals are the core support of Donald Trump and the cruelties he is visiting on so many people. As she states,

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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In the essay I've just linked, Falkenberry responds to an Arkansas man who emailed her a lengthy response to her previous statement about spiritual abuse, saying that, in effect, she's painting with a broad brush, that not all Christians and not all Southern Baptists are like what she's describing.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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Arkansas writer Gwen Falkenberry, who grew up Southern Baptist in Arkansas, recently published an essay in which she speaks about the "spiritual abuse" she and others, notably women, have endured in Southern Baptist churches.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/oct/30/opinion-gwen-faulkenberry-origins-of-toxic-beliefs/

"Johnson’s one client is not his constituents but Donald Trump. And Trump does not want the federal government to ever reopen."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #MikeJohnson #food #SNAP #healthcare
/12

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trump-doesnt-ever-want-the-government

"This shutdown isn’t an accident; it’s a weapon. Federal workers are furloughed, contractors are unpaid, and community clinics are collapsing. The Trump administration calls it 'fiscal discipline.' I call it cruelty with a spreadsheet."

~ Michael Cohen

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #MikeJohnson #food #SNAP #healthcare
/12

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-last-paycheck-in-america

"Three-quarters of the way through 2025 (more than 300 days), the People’s House has met for a mere 87 days.

Let that number sink in. While Americans work, pay their mortgages, and ferry their kids to school, the 119th Congress—or at least the House of Representatives—is on track to be the most truant in modern history."

~ Jeff Nesbit

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #MikeJohnson #food #SNAP #healthcare
/11

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/87-days-the-do-nothing-congresss

"They are perfectly comfortable allowing our children to go hungry and punish undocumented workers as long as the gestapo thugs at ICE keep getting funded. These are the priorities of the Republican Party. Let’s not pretend both sides are the same."

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #MikeJohnson #food #SNAP #healthcare #ICE
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