MPR News recently featured the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative’s Associate Executive Director, Carly Griffith Hotvedt (Cherokee Nation) about Indian Country food and agriculture as well as meat processing and its impact on Tribal food security.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Carly Hotvedt with the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative said rather than using the fee for service for federal inspectors, tribal nations could “adopt a food safety code that would be in parity with federal standards.

There would be some flexibility for tribes to determine how and what funding that they would use to support bison processing.”