Food insecurity in the US
Interesting drill-down from USDA-ERS. Although single-mother households have highest prevalence of food insecurity, largest number of food insecure people are in multiple-adult households without children.
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A new food standard! Yay?
It is a sure sign of my nerdish tendencies that when I see a news headline like this: Disgusted With the USDA, Farmers Make Their Own Organic Label All I can think of is this: Syndicated to The Mothership
Genetic engineering is dead
It’s official. After the demise of artisan (recorded in this week’s newsletter), I now pronounce “genetic engineering” officially dead. It’s been on the way out for decades, as people sought to blunt it’s impact by attaching it to beer, bread etc. But this announcement, in the New Food Economy newsletter, …
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The death of artisan, the trendiness of quinoa, the difficulties of disability and the future of food systems. This is the slightly shorter version of the email newsletter. If you want all the links and all the snark, sign up for email delivery.
You can’t use what you don’t know about
It’s all very well saying that recipients of SNAP benefits should buy healthier food from farmers’ markets, where they can also get a discount. But two new studies say that almost two-thirds of poor people have never been to a farmers’ market and three quarters did not know they got …