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Food and COVID-19
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- Nonprofit Quarterly: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH Voices from the Field: COVID Crisis Reinforces the Hunger Industrial Complex Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, normal wasn’t so great for the working poor in America. Despite a 10-year recovery, 12 percent of the nation remained food insecure in 2018.
- Food Distribution 101: What Happens When the Food Supply is Disrupted by a Pandemic (Civil Eats) As farmers are forced to dump food and food banks are struggling to feed millions, an explainer on U.S. food supply and distribution.
- Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system (The FERN) According to data collected by FERN, as of July 1 at 12pm ET, at least 363 meatpacking and food processing plants (262 meatpacking and 101 food processing) and 57 farms and production facilities have had confirmed cases of Covid-19. At least 37,297 workers (30,497 meatpacking workers, 3,263 food processing workers, and 3,537 farmworkers) have tested positive for Covid-19 and at least 127 workers (113 meatpacking workers, 12 food processing workers, and 2 farmworkers) have died.
- Coronavirus: It's Still a Jungle Out There (Eater) More than a century after Upton Sinclair’s novel about exploitation in America’s meat industry, the coronavirus has revealed how little meatpacking has changed.
- The future at the kitchen table: COVID-19 and the food supply Brazil is experiencing a delicate situation, with a crisis in capital reproduction and a health crisis with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The intersection of these two crises and the need for social isolation create uncertainties about the possibility of meeting basic human necessities due to the reduction in the population’s earnings and the resulting drop in consumption and the exhaustion of families’ capacity for indebtedness.
- Opportunities to Improve Food Equity and Access in Massachusetts (Greater Boston Food Bank) During 2021, high levels of food insecurity persisted in Massachusetts, with inflation and the high cost of groceries being key drivers.
