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Recent media coverage that shows why we need a national food strategy in the U.S.
Obesity ups COVID-19 death risk by 48 percent Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic Meat Processing Facilities are Closing Across the U.S. Due to the Pandemic: Will Consumers Feel the Impact? Latest Coronavirus Response Package Doesn’t Boost SNAP — the Next One Should Op-ed: Migrant Farmworkers, Native Ranchers in Border States Hit Hardest by COVID-19 USDA Let Millions of Pound of Food Rot While Food Bank Demand Soared New York Dairy Farmers Fell the Squeeze From Coronavirus as Milk Sales Dry Up What’s Inside The Senate’s $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package Full Fields, Empty Fridges Migrant Farmworkers, Many Coronavirus Positive, Move North from Florida to Other States Trump’s signature effort to direct farm surplus to needy families abruptly withdraws large contract amid criticism of rollout As more meatpacking workers fall ill from Covid-19, meat companies decline to disclose data Covid-19 Shows No Sign of Slowing Among Food-System Workers Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system Bolsonaro promove desmonte das políticas de combate à fome [Bolsonaro Promotes Dismantling of Policies to Fight Hunger] ‘Incredibly dangerous job’: concerns safety is slipping at US meat plants Scared and Sick, U.S. Meat Workers Crowd Into Reopened Plants Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants Thirty Workers, Four USDA Inspectors Dead Amid Meat Plant Coronavirus Outbreaks Greeley JBS Meatpacking Plant Reopens Without Testing All Employees For Coronavirus How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers Never Seen Anything Like It: Cars Line Up for Miles at Food Banks These 5 foods show how coronavirus has disrupted supply chains Meatpacking Workers are a Diverse Group Who Need Better Protections The coronavirus broke the food supply chain. Here’s how to fix it Smithfield Foods fined for failing to protect employees from COVID-19 Letter from 1380 national, state, and local organizations, to Sonny Perdue, U.S. Dep’t of Agric., Brandon Lipps, Food & Nutrition Serv., Pamilyn Miller, Food & Nutrition Serv. USDA Announces Coronavirus Food Assistance Program USDA, FDA Strengthen U.S. Food Supply Chain Protections During COVID-19 Pandemic USDA Extends Free Meals for Kids Through December 31, 2020 Trump Administration Extends Free Meals for Kids for Entire School Year When We’re Dead and Buried, Our Bones Will Keep Hurting: Workers Rights Under Threat in US Meat and Poultry Plants Let’s Defend Brazil’s Food Security FDA and USDA announce key step to advance collaborative efforts to streamline produce safety requirements for farmers
