When access to food becomes leverage, it stops being a policy issue and becomes a moral one. Food should never be weaponized. Back in 2019, I remember seeing a video online of a boy unwrapping a banana for Christmas. People laughed—but I couldn’t. I’d been on food stamps, buying Christmas Cap’n Crunch and Hershey’s as “gifts.” This tweet struck a chord. As Gwendolyn Brooks said, “We are each other’s bond.”
