HEALTH

workers cutting meat in a slaughterhouse

How Essential Food Workers Are Fighting Back

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07.31.20

Op-ed: Why Those Community Fridges Won’t Solve Hunger

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07.30.20

a veterinarian checking pigs in a factory farm

Will COVID-19 Make Big Meat Look Like a Bad Investment?

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07.29.20

a woman of color and her child cook a healthy meal

Should the Dietary Guidelines Help Fight Systemic Racism?

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07.28.20

Volunteers pack up boxes of food to be distributed to those in need at the distribution center of the Capital Area Food Bank on April 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

College Food Pantries Are Reinventing Ways to Feed Students

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07.27.20

young people pull processed food out of a box of online snap orders

COVID Brought SNAP Users Online. Advocates Say Mega-Retailers Are Selling Them Junk Food

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07.23.20

White says goodbye to one of her meal recipients.

Meet the People Who Bring Food and Comfort to NYC’s Homebound, Food-Insecure Seniors

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07.21.20

A man dances on a massive “Black Lives Matter” mural covering a city street in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Black Lives Matter in the Food System

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07.20.20

workers in a poultry processing plant dealing with fast poultry line speeds and insufficient social distancing and other protections.

Speeding Up Poultry Lines in a Pandemic Puts Workers’ Lives in Danger

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07.17.20

An overhead view of the Detroit urban farm study on week five. (Photo courtesy of Naim Edwards)

Could a Detroit Experiment Unleash the Power of Urban Soil?

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07.16.20

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: Democratic presidential candidate and former housing secretary Julian Castro takes the stage during the J Street National Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center October 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. Castro and three other presidential candidates were interviewed about Israel and U.S. foreign policy during the conference hosted by J Street, a political action committee that supports two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Julián Castro on the Goya Boycott and How to Support Communities of Color

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07.14.20

Marlo and Anthony Paul at Eden Land Farm in Alabama's Black Belt

The Doctor-Botanist Couple Healing a Community in the Rural South

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07.14.20

organic farm researcher testing soil health

Food Companies Step Up Funding for Organic Farming Research

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07.13.20

a person foraging ramps in wild woods near home

Interest in Foraging Is Booming. Here’s How to Do it Right

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07.09.20

Harlem Grown's Tony Hillery. (Photo courtesy of Harlem Grown)

How Black Communities Are Bridging the Food Access Gap

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07.07.20

Freshly caught fish for sale at the Dockside Harbor market. (Photo by Mark Armao)

A San Diego Pier-to-Plate Seafood Market Is a Lifeline for Fishermen

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07.02.20

a collage of three different home chefs and home cooks who work as MEHKOs

It’s Now Legal for Home Chefs in California to Sell Meals. Will More Cities Get on Board?

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06.30.20

A Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools worker helps distribute bags of donated food as part of a program to feed children while schools are closed due to the coronavirus. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

As School Meal Programs Go Broke, a Renewed Call for Universal Free Lunch

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06.29.20