Treat food access and health care as connected issues

McGovern argues that hunger and health care should be addressed together because access to nutritious food affects health. He cofounded the bipartisan Food is Medicine Working Group and says he has worked to bring health care and agriculture leaders together to develop concrete steps and reconsider how these issues are handled.

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In their own words

We can no longer look at hunger and healthcare as separate issues.

The source

James P. McGovern: Agriculture

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Retrieved: 11/11/2026