Natives shared resources, food was accessible to communities. Tribal people had sophisticated farming techniques and hunting regimes. 

Christopher Columbus colonizes Northern America. Spreads disease and uproot their traditions and ways, early establishment of capitalism. 

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formed under President Lincoln. This is the first formulation of any food safety. 

Legislation allowed rate-payer-funded feeding programs to alleviate child hunger after elementary education became compulsory, but it was up to local authorities to adopt.  

US Fed Reserve System mitigates the Great Depression by allowing US money supply to shrink by 1/3. This puts farmers in a tight spot and adds costs to their mortgage and property. 

Hunger and malnutrition rates increased throughout the nation after the Great Depression. Government supported school meal programs were thought up of for the first time, through buying surplus commodities to serve in schools. 

President Harry Truman established the National School Lunch Act, which provided federally assisted meals operating in public/nonprofit private schools and child care institutions. This provided nutritionally balanced, lowered cost, or free lunches to children on school days. 

Consumer Bill of Rights introduced by President John F. Kennedy. Concerns consumers right to food safety, information, and amendments that preceded it. 

The first noted food bank was St. Mary's Food Bank founded by John van Hengel and located in Arizona.  Prior to this, he had been volunteering at a local soup kitchen and served dinner to those in need. Inspired by a dependent young mother, he came up with the idea and founded this food bank in an abandoned building in. He later opens several banks across the country and the national org. of America's Second Harvest, which is known now as Feeding America. 

The Food Stamp Act  was passed, one of the largest welfare programs that helps households subsidize food costs. This program is known for major fraud and abuse. Food stamps have strong anti-recession properties as it injects money into local economies and help redirect food costs into other needs. 1977, SNAP/Food Stamps/CalFresh established its modern form via Food Stamp Reform Act. 

Many food acts increase and reform in flexibility for farmers in planting under gov. programs. Food banks are widely accessible, and awareness of food accessibility increases. 

California became the first state to provide meals to children regardless of whether they qualified for the free/reduced-price meals and income. The California Universal School Meals Program (UMP) encompasses all students, well beyond the federal government requirements. Since then, seven other states have followed and passed similar policies.