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How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
WEBNov 2, 2020 · Most notably, since the pandemic began, Trump has used the Defense Production Act to allow meat companies to compel their workers to return to work, despite worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.A ProPublica investigation later found that the North American Meat Institute, which represents large companies including Tyson and Cargill, wrote a draft of the order.
Can This Chicken Company Solve America’s Food Waste Problem?
WEBNovember 30, 2022. “Welcome to how we solve food waste in this country,” said Do Good Foods co-founder and co-CEO Justin Kamine, as he led a tour of the company’s eastern Pennsylvania factory. Inside, large, green bins were filled with surplus food from 450 supermarkets in the region. Soon, a conveyor belt would move them toward a giant ...
Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others …
WEBAug 20, 2022 · From Michigan to Massachusetts, people have been thwarted—or even outright banned—from growing food on their own property. But thanks to the concerted efforts of people like Virgil and their legal allies, “right to garden” laws are slowly gaining traction. Such legislation remains scarce at the state level, however—only Illinois and ...
College Food Pantries Are Reinventing Ways to Feed Students
WEBJul 27, 2020 · Food insecurity was already rampant among college students before the pandemic, ranging from between 42 and 56 percent at two-year schools, and between 33 and 42 percent at four-year schools, according to 2019 research from the Hope Center. Indigenous and Black students experience disproportionately higher food insecurity.
What the Story of DDT, America’s Most Notorious Chemical
WEBJul 6, 2022 · Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, or DDT, is a notorious pesticide that was once considered a panacea in the United States. It was unleashed with abundance from the 1940s to the 1960s, used to fight a wide range of agricultural pests and human diseases, but its toxicity and carcinogenicity in animals and humans soon came to light, and the chemical’s use was discontinued.
Food Insecurity Is Rising in Detroit. So Is the Number of People ...
WEBNov 13, 2020 · Each person is given 30 pounds of food, including produce and milk. “It’s real milk,” Sandy said. “What’s good is the stuff they’re giving is stuff they’re actually eating.”. This is the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, where the coronavirus pandemic has made hunger more visible. In the last six months, food banks ...
Op-ed: How Urban Agriculture Can Fight Racism in the Food System
WEBJul 10, 2020 · Op-ed: How Urban Agriculture Can Fight Racism in the Food System. Growing food in cities offers a powerful way to reclaim communities and change the dynamics so that people of color have wealth and power. This article was originally published by Bioneers, and is an edited excerpt of a presentation Washington made at a past Bioneers Conference.
Op-ed: Despite Providing Respite and Healing, Prison Gardens Can ...
WEBAug 16, 2021 · Every time the media runs a story about a prison garden, it’s more or less the same. In 2015, The Washington Post asked: “Can gardening transform convicted killers and carjackers? ” In 2017, Next City highlighted how the gardens help inmates and save money.And in 2019, The New York Times described the garden at Rikers Island in New York as an “innovative sanctuary.”
How a South Carolina Farmer Is Adapting an Heirloom Rice to …
WEBSeptember 16, 2020. “When I was a kid, my parents were growing no rice; all the rice had vanished,” says Hardeeville, South Carolina horticulturist Rollen Chalmers with a soft lilt to his voice. Though the generations-deep Gullah tradition of growing rice had faded by the time Chalmers was growing up, he tapped into his family’s ...