Media
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
Angela Betsaida B. Lauguipo (2020) - Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic
David Yaffey Bellany & Michael Corkey (2020) - Meat Processing Facilities are Closing Across the U.S. Due to the Pandemic: Will Consumers Feel the Impact?
Dianne Gallagher and Pamela Kirkland (2020) - Latest Coronavirus Response Package Doesn’t Boost SNAP — the Next One Should
Dottie Rosenbaum, Ctr. on Budget and Pol’y Priorities (2020) - Op-ed: Migrant Farmworkers, Native Ranchers in Border States Hit Hardest by COVID-19
Gary Nabhan (2020) - USDA Let Millions of Pound of Food Rot While Food Bank Demand Soared
Helena Bottemiller Evich (2020) - New York Dairy Farmers Fell the Squeeze From Coronavirus as Milk Sales Dry Up
Jimmy Vielkind (2020) - What’s Inside The Senate’s $2 Trillion Coronavirus Aid Package
Kelsey Snell (2020) - Full Fields, Empty Fridges
Laura Reily (2020) - Migrant Farmworkers, Many Coronavirus Positive, Move North from Florida to Other States
Laura Reiley (2020) - Trump’s signature effort to direct farm surplus to needy families abruptly withdraws large contract amid criticism of rollout
Laura Reiley (2020) - As more meatpacking workers fall ill from Covid-19, meat companies decline to disclose data
Leah Douglas (2020) - Covid-19 Shows No Sign of Slowing Among Food-System Workers
Leah Douglas (2020) - Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system
Leah Douglas (2020) - Bolsonaro promove desmonte das políticas de combate à fome [Bolsonaro Promotes Dismantling of Policies to Fight Hunger]
Leandro Melito (2020) - ‘Incredibly dangerous job’: concerns safety is slipping at US meat plants
Lewis Kendall (2020) - Scared and Sick, U.S. Meat Workers Crowd Into Reopened Plants
Lydia Mulvany, Jen Skerritt, et al. (2020) - Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants
Michael Grabell et al. (2020) - Thirty Workers, Four USDA Inspectors Dead Amid Meat Plant Coronavirus Outbreaks
Mike Dorning (2020) - Greeley JBS Meatpacking Plant Reopens Without Testing All Employees For Coronavirus
Natalia V. Navarro (2020) - How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers
Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce W. Stucki (2019) - Never Seen Anything Like It: Cars Line Up for Miles at Food Banks
Nicholas Kulish (2020) - These 5 foods show how coronavirus has disrupted supply chains
Sarah Gibbins (2020) - Meatpacking Workers are a Diverse Group Who Need Better Protections
Shawn Fremstad et al., Ctr for Econ. Progress (2020) - The coronavirus broke the food supply chain. Here’s how to fix it
Sierra Garcia & Emily Pontecorvo (2020) - Smithfield Foods fined for failing to protect employees from COVID-19
AGDAILY Reporters (2020) - 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.
Food Research and Action Center (2020) - USDA Announces Coronavirus Food Assistance Program
USDA Press Release (2020) - USDA, FDA Strengthen U.S. Food Supply Chain Protections During COVID-19 Pandemic
USDA Press Release (2020) - USDA Extends Free Meals for Kids Through December 31, 2020
USDA Press Release (2020) - Trump Administration Extends Free Meals for Kids for Entire School Year
USDA and FNS Press Release (2020) - When We’re Dead and Buried, Our Bones Will Keep Hurting: Workers Rights Under Threat in US Meat and Poultry Plants
Human Rights Watch (2019) - Let’s Defend Brazil’s Food Security
Slow Food (2019) - FDA and USDA announce key step to advance collaborative efforts to streamline produce safety requirements for farmers
FDA Press Release (2018)
