About this episode

Jaime and Matt discuss the political implications of food assistance programs with David Dadekian.

Jaime and Matt connect with Eat Drink RI founder David Dadekian to dive into the history and necessity for food assistance programs like SNAP. This conversation proves that food is (unfortunately) political and why feeding people should never be a question, rather an obligation.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jaime, Matt

Guest: David Dadekian

Topics covered

• food assistance
• SNAP
• food politics
• community support
• history of food programs

Keywords

• food assistance
• SNAP
• politics
• David Dadekian
• Eat Drink RI
• community
• feeding people

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eat Drink RI

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