healthy eating

Navajos pass higher tax on junk food

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The Navajo Nation Council, in its weeklong winter session, passed a tax on junk food and eliminated a tax on fresh, healthy foods Thursday.

Denisa Livingston, a healthy food advocate, worked with about 75 other members of the Diné Community Advocacy Alliance for the past two years to pass the 2 percent additional tax on sugary sodas and packaged snacks like doughnuts and chips, bringing the tax on those foods to 7 percent...

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Olmstead, Donna. "Navajos pass higher tax on junk food." Albuquerque Journal. January 31, 2014. Article. (https://www.abqjournal.com/345559/navajos-pass-higher-tax-on-junk-food.html, accessed February 3, 2014)

Oneidas want locally produced food on local tables

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The Oneida Tribe of Indians’ foray into establishing a food hub in their community is proving to be so successful that they’d like to see it spread throughout the county. Products that are grown and processed on Oneida land have been feeding the tribe’s elementary students and elderly for some time now, and the tribe has been making a push to make them available for retail sale to the public since December, when the Oneida Market opened in a wing of the Oneida One Stop on Packerland Drive...

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"Oneidas want locally produced food on local tables." The Journal. May 24, 2013. Article. (http://www.journal-news.net/life/home-and-garden/2013/05/oneida-tribe-wants.., accessed January 9, 2017)