From Green New Deal to Bean New Deal: The Food Bill Aiming to Change What’s on Our Plates

From Green New Deal to Bean New Deal: The Food Bill Aiming to Change What’s on Our Plates

In 1933, there was the New Deal. Nearly a century later, in 2019, came the Green New Deal. Now, in 2025, Massachusetts has the Bean New Deal. Yes, you read that correctly. Filed earlier this year by Senator Cynthia Stone Creem of Newton, MA, Bill S.922, nicknamed the Bean New Deal, shares one key goal with its predecessors: to make people’s lives better. If passed, the bill would require all state-run dining halls, cafeterias, and canteens in Ma…