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Wed, 2011-10-26 00:45 — 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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Allen Clark Bob Ross Carl Taylor Christine Springer Corey Watts david hastings
drvroeg Gavin Macgregor... John Hoffman Kathy Gilbeaux LintonWells LuisKun
Maeryn Obley mdmcdonald Michael Gresalfi Rahul Gupta Ray Shirkhodai Samuel Bendett
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Food and safe water security for minority children in U.S. is decreasing -study

Mon, 2024-06-10 10:46 — 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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United States
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Children
Demographics
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Economics
Food
Water
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U.S. dairy products, ground beef tested negative for bird flu--US Agriculture Department

Thu, 2024-05-02 10:29 — 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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United States
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Bird Flu
Contagion
Disease Prevention
Government
Public Attitudes
Research
Agriculture
Animals
Food
Livestock
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Food insecurity in US dropped during pandemic--study

Wed, 2024-01-03 11:20 — 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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United States
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Government
Health
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Public Health
Food
Vulnerability
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COVID virus can survive on some groceries for days -- new study

Fri, 2022-12-02 18:07 — 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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Europe
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Study shows safety net helped prevent widespread hunger during the pandemic

Thu, 2021-09-09 09:24 — 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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COVID-19
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Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says

Sat, 2020-10-17 19:19 — 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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China
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COVID-19
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The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 09:04 — 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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Africa
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Guinea
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India
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Nigeria
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SouthEast Asia
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COVID-19
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Health
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Volunteers save New York's oldest community farm as Covid-19 hits agriculture

Fri, 2020-07-31 10:17 — 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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United States
US - East
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COVID-19
Agriculture
Conservation
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Economics
Health
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How More Organic Farming Could Worsen Global Warming

Sat, 2019-10-26 10:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Left: For decades, the conventional wisdom surrounding organic farming has been that it produces crops that are healthier and better for the environment as a whole. A new study out this week challenges this narrative. Photo by REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

CLICK HERE - STUDY - The greenhouse gas impacts of converting food production in England and Wales to organic methods

pbs.org - by Courtney Vinopal - October 23, 2019

. . . a new study out this week predicts that a wholesale shift to organic farming could increase net greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 21 percent . . .

 . . . Organic farming typically produces lower crop yields due to factors such as the lower potency fertilizers used in the soil, which are limited to natural sources such as beans and other legume . . .

 . . . Proponents of organic farming acknowledge the issue of low crop yields raised by the Cranfield Study, but maintain that farmers can still find ways to reduce their carbon footprint by focusing on “regenerative practices.”

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Agriculture
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