Goal 15: All Vermonters will have access to fresh, nutritionally balanced food that they can afford.

In a country as wealthy, powerful, and agriculturally productive as the United States, it is inconceivable that people suffer through food insecurity (defined by USDA as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways) or very low food security (defined by USDA as times during the year where eating patterns of one or more household members were disrupted and food intake reduced because the household lacked money and other resources for food). The effects of hunger and food insecurity impact the health, lifelong success, and well-being of people. Goal 15 aims to mitigate food insecurity in Vermont by improving access to healthy, affordable food for all Vermonters.