Acta Non Verba,a youth urban farm project fighting food insecurity and diet-related health issues in Oakland, recently lost its city funding despite protests by community members and other local organizations such as the Sugar Freedom Project last month. ANV, which has two farms, one in West Oakland and one in East Oakland, was backed by the 2017 tax on sugar-sweetened beverages of 1 cent per fluid ounce. The intended beneficiaries of this tax were programs like ANV’s that are helping combat the intake of sugary processed foods and diet-related health issues. ANV farms serve a further purpose in that the produce from their farms is used to create Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) bags which they freely distribute to community members who need them.
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