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May
15

The Sickness in Our Food Supply

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Originally published by Michael Pollan

“Only when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett observed, “do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” For our society, the Covid-19 pandemic represents an ebb tide of historic proportions, one that is laying bare vulnerabilities and inequities that in normal times have gone undiscovered. Nowhere is this more evident than in the American food system. A series of shocks has exposed weak links in our food chain that threaten to leave grocery shelves as patchy and unpredictable as those in the former Soviet bloc.

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Shoppers fill cart with packaged foods in bulk
May
13

How to Crisis-Proof Our Food System

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Before the current pandemic, few Americans put much thought into our food system. The more privileged among us could find anything we wanted at the grocery store and could comfortably afford to feed our families. Some of us ate out multiple times each week and could choose among many different cuisines and eateries. We didn’t need to think about what went into growing our food, how the supply chains that delivered our meats and vegetables functioned, or the economic and safety realities of those who harvested, delivered, and prepared our meals.

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A playground just north of downtown Flint, Mich.
May
12

I’m Sick of Asking Children to Be Resilient

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A baby born in Flint, where I am a pediatrician, is likely to live almost 20 fewer years than a child born elsewhere in the same county. She’s a baby like any other, with wide eyes, a growing brain and a vast, bottomless innocence — too innocent to understand the injustices that without her knowing or choosing have put her at risk.

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Drawing of food service workers
May
06

Today is the W.P.A.’s 85th Birthday. Let’s Bring it Back for a Food Industry in Crisis

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The Covid pandemic has had an enormous impact on America’s food systems.  Workers in the food service industry—servers and bartenders, chefs and dishwashers—account for an estimated sixty percent of jobs lost since the pandemic reached the United States.

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Apr
01

Coronavirus pandemic should shift our focus to a more locally sourced food supply

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A positive side effect of the pandemic: Demand for local food is through the roof.

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Mar
26

NFU Says Local Foods Important to Healthcare

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DeBor observed that the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act has strengthened the long standing IRS “community benefit” requirement that nonprofit hospitals must meet to justify their nonprofit status. This includes a mandate to perform a “community needs assessment” in collaboration with public health experts and stakeholders in local communities served by the hospital/hospital system and then to develop and implement a plan to meet the identified needs. Since obesity-related chronic disease is a widespread problem and improving food systems and access to healthful foods is now recognized as part of the solution to this problem, farmers should be among the stakeholders participating in the community needs assessment process.

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VIDEO & PODCAST LIBRARY

Recovery is Cooking
From Connecticut Mental Health Center


Plow to Plate
Before Fresh Advantage, Marydale co-founded Plow to Plate. Hear about their successes on All Things Connecticut


Prescribing Food, Part 1: Making Hospitals Healthier
From Heritage Radio Network



Women Addressing Food In Healthcare
From the Yale Sustainable Food Project Podcast


IN THE MEDIA
  • The Right to Food: Building Upon “Food Is Medicine”
  • The Sickness in Our Food Supply
  • How to Crisis-Proof Our Food System
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