Environmental Working Group

Friend,

COVID-19 has swept through overcrowded meatpacking facilities throughout the country. At least 6,500 food plant workers are now either sick from COVID-19 or in insolation.

But the federal government has failed to take action to protect vulnerable food and farm workers. This inaction is putting the sources of our food at risk. We need to step up and protect these essential workers now before it’s too late. Will you join us?

Click here to urge Congress to protect food and farm workers during the COVID-19 pandemic!

Our food supply chain has never been more essential. We need to protect the people putting food on our table so that all of us have enough to eat, even in the most difficult times. Please join the fight today.

Thanks for standing with us, friend.

Helen Lucey
Senior Digital Strategist, EWG

---------- Original Message ----------
To: [email protected]
From: Colin O’Neil, EWG
Date: Friday, April 17, 2020
Subject: America’s food system

Tell Congress:
Protect Our Food System From COVID-19!

TAKE ACTION

Dear friend,

Families who struggle to afford healthy food and the people working around the clock to keep our food system running need our help now more than ever.

But Congress isn’t doing enough to support these workers or to ensure that hungry families – families just like yours – have access to healthy food during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We need to protect the source of America’s food, so that all of us have enough to eat, even in the most difficult times.

EWG is calling on Congress to take simple steps to ensure that every American has healthy food.

Click here to urge your congressional representatives to protect America’s food system.

Here’s what we’re asking Congress to do:

•	Increase SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, by 15% and ensure all who need them have access to these benefits.
•	Provide personal protective equipment, hazard pay, sick leave and health care for all farm and food workers.
•	Do more to help mom-and-pop restaurants and family farmers.
•	Enforce food safety and labor laws to protect food and farm workers and keep our food safe from pesticides and pathogens.

These are small, simple steps that will have a big impact. But Congress needs to take action now to make sure the source of our food remains strong.

Please urge your representatives to stand up for our farm and food workers so that we can make sure that all Americans have food on the table.

Thanks for standing with us, friend.

Colin O’Neil
Legislative Director, EWG

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EWG's mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. EWG is a non-profit and non-partisan organization. The EWG Action Fund, a separate sister organization of EWG, is a legislative advocacy organization that promotes healthy and sustainable policies.

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