#nutrition-education

#nutrition-education

"The North Shore of Staten Island is a food desert. There are not a lot of places that have fresh, local vegetables and produce and people were looking for something healthier," said Ilene Pappert, director of the Goodhue Community Center in New Brighton where the distributions take place. "It has become such a community. People are sharing recipes, people are excited about trying new things. And they feel like they were getting their money's worth."

"This is a movement to change the way all of these other programs are interacting with the food system," she said.

According to a new survey, 83 percent of Republicans support Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposal to mandate nutrition education in federally funded schools, a revolutionary idea that they can't believe no one thought of before.