US: Food Security

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Tue, 2011-10-25 21:45 — mdmcdonald

Food supply, food politics, and food safety in the US, inclusive of global concerns and needs

Group focusing upon the food security needs of the US, and world.

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Food and safe water security for minority children in U.S. is decreasing -study

Mon, 2024-06-10 07:46 — mike kraft

Secure access to food and water is decreasing for US children, research finds (medicalxpress.com)

Between 2005 and 2020, the number of children facing simultaneous water and food insecurity in the United States more than doubled. Additionally, Black and Hispanic children were several times more likely than white children to experience food and water insecurity at the same time....

In a study published in Nature Water, the researchers examined water insecurity, food insecurity and their simultaneous occurrence among children in the United States.

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U.S. dairy products, ground beef tested negative for bird flu--US Agriculture Department

Thu, 2024-05-02 07:29 — mike kraft

Pasteurization inactivates H5N1 bird flu in milk, new FDA and academic studies confirm Extensive testing of pasteurized commercially purchased milk and other dairy products from 38 states found no evidence of live H5N1 bird flu virus. Megan Molteni STAT

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Food insecurity in US dropped during pandemic--study

Wed, 2024-01-03 08:20 — mike kraft

Study: Food insecurity in US dropped during pandemic Food insecurity among low-income US adults dropped by nearly 5% during the pandemic. CIDRAP

Through government programs that included the expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food insecurity among low-income US adults dropped by nearly 5% during the pandemic but rose by 2022, according to a study today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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COVID virus can survive on some groceries for days -- new study

Fri, 2022-12-02 15:07 — mike kraft

COVID can live on groceries for days, scientists find in new study The virus is more likely to survive on certain foods, depending on the conditions in which they’re stored. YahooFinance

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Study shows safety net helped prevent widespread hunger during the pandemic

Thu, 2021-09-09 06:24 — mike kraft

New federal study shows safety net helped prevent widespread hunger during the pandemic U.S. Agriculture Department releases first complete government calculation of 2020 hunger surge, revealing the success of pandemic safety net programs. Laura Reiley Washington Post

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Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says

Sat, 2020-10-17 16:19 — mike kraft

Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says China's disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. Reuters Staff U.S.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.

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The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 06:04 — mike kraft

...As the global economy absorbs the most punishing reversal of fortunes since the Great Depression, hunger is on the rise. Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

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Volunteers save New York's oldest community farm as Covid-19 hits agriculture

Fri, 2020-07-31 07:17 — mike kraft

Volunteers save New York's oldest community farm as Covid-19 hits agriculture The pandemic upended the practices that typically keep Quail Hill Farm running smoothly. It’s emblematic of an industry-wide struggle Alexandra Talty the Guardian

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How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis

Wed, 2019-04-10 07:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Outside the small village of Chicua, in the western highlands, in an area affected by extreme-weather events, Ilda Gonzales looks after her daughter.

newyorker.com - by Jonathan Blitzer - Photography by Mauricio Lima - April 3, 2019

. . . In most of the western highlands, the question is no longer whether someone will emigrate but when. “Extreme poverty may be the primary reason people leave,” Edwin Castellanos, a climate scientist at the Universidad del Valle, told me. “But climate change is intensifying all the existing factors” . . . Farming, Castellanos has said, is “a trial-and-error exercise for the modification of the conditions of sowing and harvesting times in the face of a variable environment.” Climate change is outpacing the ability of growers to adapt.

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