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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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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
Siftar Tim Stephens tom.mcginn William Lyerly
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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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United States
General Topic Tags: 
Bird Flu
Contagion
Disease Prevention
Government
Public Attitudes
Research
Agriculture
Animals
Food
Livestock
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis

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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United States
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Government
Health
Policy
Public Health
Food
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis
Solutions
Situation Report

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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Europe
Global
UK - London
United Kingdom
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COVID-19
Contagion
Disease
Disease Prevention
Health
Mutations
Pandemics
Public Health
Research
Science
Food
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis
Situation Report

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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United States
General Topic Tags: 
COVID-19
Public Health
Economics
Food
Government
Health
Pandemics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Analysis

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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China
Global
General Topic Tags: 
COVID-19
Contagion
Disease
Government
Health
Pandemics
Science
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

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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Africa
Conakry
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Guinea
Haiti
India
Liberia
Mexico
Middle East
Nepal
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
SouthEast Asia
United Nations
General Topic Tags: 
COVID-19
Agriculture
Disease
Economics
Health
Pandemics
Poverty
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Groundwater Depletion in Texas, California Threatens US Food Security

Wed, 2012-06-13 18:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

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Groundwater depletion has been most severe in the purple areas indicated on these maps of (A) the High Plains and (B) California's Central Valley. These heavily affected areas are concentrated in parts of the Texas Panhandle, western Kansas, and the Tulare Basin in California's Central Valley. Changes in groundwater levels in (A) are adapted from a 2009 report by the U.S. Geological Survey and in (B) from a 1989 report by the USGS.

Homeland Security News Wire - May 29, 2012

The U.S. food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture; for example, from 2006 to 2009, farmers in the south of California’s Central Valley depleted enough groundwater to fill the U.S. largest man-made reservoir, Lake Mead near Las Vegas — a level of groundwater depletion that is unsustainable at current recharge rates

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US - West
General Topic Tags: 
Food
Water
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Maine Congresswoman Unveils Bill to Support Small Farms

Tue, 2011-10-25 22:28 — JRees

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) announced Monday she will introduce bail that would "significantly change the nation's food policy" by supporting local and regional farmers. The package of reforms and new programs, dubbed The Local Farm, Food, and Jobs Act, would encourage the production of local food by helping farmers and ranchers and by improving distribution systems, building on the success of farmers markets across the country.

Source: Food Safety News  Author: Helena Bottemiller | Oct 25, 2011

"This is about healthy local food and a healthy local economy. When consumers can buy affordable food grown locally, everyone wins," said Pingree, who owns an organic farm in North Haven, Maine. "It creates jobs on local farms and bolsters economic growth in rural communities."
Pingree tied local food system growth to creating jobs all over the country.
"We've seen explosive growth in sales of local food here in Maine and all across the country. This bill breaks down barriers the federal government has put up for local food producers and really just makes it easier for people to do what they've already been doing," the congresswoman said.

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Food
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Other

Feeding America - Hunger & Poverty Statistics

Tue, 2011-10-25 20:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Hunger & Poverty Statistics, although related, are not the same.  Unemployment rather than poverty is a stronger predictor of food insecurity. Below are important hunger facts and poverty statistics from Feeding America.

Poverty 

  • In 2009, 43.6 million people (14.3 percent) were in poverty.
  • In 2009, 8.8 million (11.1% percent) families were in poverty.
  • In 2009, 24.7 million (12.9 percent) of people ages 18-64 were in poverty.
  • In 2009, 15.5 million (20.7 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
  • In 2009, 3.4 million (8.9 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.

Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security[2]

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