Episode 155: Multisourcing Food
About the Podcast
In this 7-minute “Candid Clancy” episode, Clancy talks straight about people getting food from various sources, whether they have the money to pay for it or not.
About Clancy Harrison
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry. Since the onset of COVID-19 Clancy has distributed nearly 1 million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Discussion Takeaways
- Should people be allowed to go to multiple food pantries? Food Dignity® thinks so!
- Clancy asks listeners to think about a food shopper, going to various grocery stores on the same day. Do you feel that it’s their right and privilege to go to multiple stores to maximize the food that you want and need?
- Sourcing food from several food pantries is sometimes therefore a complete necessity, much in the same way that we might go to one store for the best fruit, another for the vegetables we want, and yet another to find some item one of the stores did not have in stock.
- In that line of thought, it’s impossible to judge the food insecure. It’s not our place to judge someone and create a false narrative based on our own life experience.
The beautiful image above was created by Rebecca Garofano, our Food Dignity Institute Lead and Illustration Specialist. You can find more of her work at @VeggieDoodleSoup on Instagram and at her website.
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