The people who deliver your food are hungry

The pandemic added food-insecurity to the list of daily struggles gig workers face. In New York City, they've banded together to demand better working conditions.

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Farmworkers face a life-and-death commute to Arizona’s lettuce fields

The Nation

Vilsack’s checkoff problem

The hog baron

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The Highlight by Vox

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Reinstate organic livestock rule, OTA asks judge

By ,  June 21, 2021

Biden tax plan puts U.S. farms at risk, says Boozman

By ,  June 14, 2021

Rethinking wildfires at the start of a potentially devastating fire season

By ,  June 13, 2021

After months of waiting, labor advocates disappointed new OSHA rule excludes food system workers

By ,  June 10, 2021

In New York City, gig workers facing food insecurity are fighting back

June 8, 2021

Biden proposes 16 percent increase in child nutrition outlays

By ,  May 31, 2021

In Texas, a rare workers’ comp win against meatpacker JBS

By ,  May 26, 2021

Fear of reprisal kept immigrants from accessing federal aid in pandemic

By ,  May 26, 2021

EPA managers intruded on dicamba decision making

By ,  May 24, 2021

Opinion: If Biden wants farmers to join his climate fight, he needs a better sales pitch

By and ,  May 23, 2021

Address imbalances in cattle market, say farm groups

By ,  May 17, 2021

Flush times for farmers, buoyed by strong markets and pandemic aid

By ,  May 13, 2021

FERN’s Friday Feed: The plant that ‘took over the world’

Editor’s Desk — When getting to work is a matter of life and death

As halibut decline, Alaska Native fishers square off against industrial fleets

National Geographic

A year later, food workers still experience waves of Covid-19

The battle to control America’s ‘most destructive’ species: feral pigs

National Geographic

Which states are vaccinating food system workers?

At California pork plant, confusion and safety violations as Covid-19 spread

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Feed the people

Eater

Widely used neonic insecticides may be a threat to mammals, too

National Geographic

The tasting menu at the end of the world

Eater

She stakes her claim

Virginia Quarterly Review

FERN’s Leah Douglas: I hope you’ll support FERN this year

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