Amanda Starbuck, Senior Food Researcher and Policy Analyst at Food and Water Watch talks about how the COVID crisis has shown how broken the U.S. food supply chain is. Corporate farms, consolidation of meat production into only a few companies, and using COVID as an excuse for more deregulation is showing the weak underbelly of […]
What COVID-19 Is Doing to the U.S. Food Supply
There seems to be a huge disconnect between what’s available in grocery stores and what’s happening on many farms across the country. It’s a paradox: grocery stores are running out of milk, but dairy farmers are dumping milk because there is nowhere for the normal supply to go due to widespread school, cafeteria, and restaurant […]
The Vital and Vulnerable Work of Latinx Laborers
“COVID-19 has fundamentally changed who we are—how we work, how we think about work, how we interact with each other—but it also exposes how interconnected we all are. We are dependent on rural areas as the rural areas are dependent on cities,” says Professor Armando Ibarra from the School for Workers at the University of […]