Food + Health
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Can food banks keep home deliveries going?
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11.11.2021
by Chris Costanzo
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America’s food safety system failed to stop a salmonella epidemic. It’s still making people sick.
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11.09.2021
by Bernice Yeung + Michael Grabell + Irena Hwang + Mollie Simon, ProPublica
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Two large U.S. cities have adopted a Good Food Purchasing framework to support local economies, better working conditions, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare
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11.04.2021
by Lela Nargi
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How food banks are working to help solve college hunger
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11.03.2021
by Chris Costanzo
Doroteo Jimenez, of Lodi, California, holds a photograph of his niece, Maria Jimenez, who died in 2008 while working in a grapevine for 9 hours without access to water. She was only 17 at the time and pregnant.
‘Temperatures continue to rise and farmworkers continue to be at risk’
Doroteo Jimenez, of Lodi, California, holds a photograph of his niece, Maria Jimenez, who died in 2008 while working in a grapevine for 9 hours without access to water. She was only 17 at the time and pregnant.
11.02.2021
by Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY Network Agriculture Data Fellow, Investigate Midwest
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Making food allergies the focus of food equity
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11.01.2021
by Chris Costanzo
The JBS meat placing plant is viewed in Plainwell, Michigan on June 2, 2021.
Covid-19 cases and deaths linked to meatpacking plants were far higher than previously estimated, House subcommittee finds
The JBS meat placing plant is viewed in Plainwell, Michigan on June 2, 2021.
10.28.2021
by H. Claire Brown
A graphic collage of two women at a processing plant, processed poultry, and a chicken production line with weathered yellow paper in the background. October 2021
In North Carolina, Mountaire poultry workers say an unknown chemical is making them sick
A graphic collage of two women at a processing plant, processed poultry, and a chicken production line with weathered yellow paper in the background. October 2021
10.18.2021
by Tina Vasquez
A worker at a meat processing plant, cuts off fat on a cut of meat wearing blue gloves. October 2021
USDA study shows working conditions in meatpacking plants likely drove coronavirus outbreaks
A worker at a meat processing plant, cuts off fat on a cut of meat wearing blue gloves. October 2021
10.13.2021
by Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest/Report for America + Madison McVan