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Critics say it’s time to stop using the term “food deserts”

09.16.2021

Lela Nargi

Salmonella: Why it’s a chicken and egg thing

09.16.2021

by Maureen O’Hagan, Knowable Magazine

NYC food pantries strive to serve Muslim communities with halal meat

09.16.2021

by Nadia Batool Bokhari

College students who experience food insecurity graduate at half the rate of their peers

09.02.2021

by Jessica Fu

They create jobs, open farmers’ markets, and make local food resilient, just, and equitable. Chances are, you’ve never heard of them.

09.01.2021

by Lela Nargi

Fertilizer runoff disproportionately harms low-income communities’ drinking water

08.31.2021

by Madison McVan

OSHA reverses course, urges universal masking for restaurants, meat processing plants, and other indoor workplaces

08.18.2021

by Jessica Fu

Ahead of wildfire season, Washington Farm Bureau has been lobbying against emergency worker health protections

07.02.2021

by Jessica Fu

An entire California town is without running water—in a heat wave

06.30.2021

by Melissa Montalvo

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