Less Bureaucracy, More Broccoli. We can quite actually solve hunger this decade through innovation and old fashioned thrift. If there’s food left over, it moves. Simple. Foodborne illness kills thousands every year. The USDA-F enforces the FOOD CHAIN Act with real-time tracking, not outdated clipboards. We want to make the system as fun and awesome as the meals themselves. Why “awesome?” Because feeding people isn’t boring. It’s the most basic, joyful act of community and survival. We’re bringing back flavor, energy, and fairness. Community Food Nodes are local depots that double as kitchens, co-ops, and rescue hubs. The USDA-F isn’t just another agency bolted on like a Frankenstein. It’s a people’s department, built outside the lobby-friendly halls of Washington. A new public utility for food — lean, local, and laser-focused on getting everyone fed without mountains of paperwork or billion-dollar middlemen.

Solving hunger also requires upstream innovation and I believe further developing industrial farming technology to put data “on-chain” that is to say a blockchain. I know what you’re saying “booo, industrial farms and booo blockchain hype.” Get real. We rely on these high output farms for the lion’s share of our needs and food borne illness tracking is antiquated and inefficient. Going further, the subsidies we provide to the corn farmers has created a perverse effect of injecting high-fructose corn syrup into nearly everything. We need to be nimble in providing subsidies and even find ways to steer these resources away from mono-crops to a more diverse array of fruits and vegetables at all levels of production.