Dive Summary:

• Food Policy Action is a new group founded in Washington that keeps track of the way Senators and Congressmen vote on key food policy issues.
• The group has set up a scale, 0 - 100, that helps rate a legislator's food voting record as either pro consumer (100) or pro business (0).
• Most of the legislative votes have been condensed into the Farm Bill, a sprawling and constant legislative attempt to control U.S. food and agricultural policy 

From the article:

"There's no doubting that interest in food issues -- sustainability, safety, health -- has skyrocketed in the last two decades. More Americans than ever think carefully about everything they put in their mouths. But so far, it's been hard for Americans who care about food to apply their interest to politics. The Farm Bill -- the primary vehicle for food policy in Washington -- is long and complex. And though many well-informed people know it's generally problematic and heavily influenced by agricultural lobbyists, it's been hard to figure out how to do anything about that."