Food Insecurity in the Pandemic with Food Bank RGV

Thought About Food Podcast

In this second episode I talk with Stuart Haniff from the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley about food insecurity during the pandemic and its economic fallout. We talk about the way food security is manifesting itself right now by looking at this local context, as well as some ways you can help directly.

Show Notes

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• Stuart Haniff is the director of the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley.
• You can support the Food Bank RGV on their website, but here's the link to directly address the surge in need from Covid 19. The money raised goes directly to emergency food assistance in the RGV.
• As I mentioned in the intro, the book Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza is an excellent and highly influential book on the nature of borderlands, but focusing particularly on the RGV, where Gloria Anzaldúa is from. (she's an alumna from the legacy institution of the UTRGV where I teach! I should have mentioned that in the episode, but she'll come up again in future podcasts no doubt.)
• Also as I mentioned in the intro, the RGV has been discussed in a lot of national and international media as an example of an area struggling with the various effects of the pandemic. Here's an example from the New York Times.
• The intro and outro music is "Whiskey Before Breakfast" which is both a great traditional song and self-care advice for the pandemic. It was performed and shared by The Dan River Ramblers under a Creative Commons license.