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Concerns about safety, availability of produce in our supermarket aisles
Published 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Safe, affordable produce is increasingly hard to come by in the United States. Just this year, there have been at least 13,000 confirmed cases of cyclospora across the nation – and cuts to FDA inspections could be a main culprit.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Farm Bill has stalled once again in Congress due to partisan conflict over federal food aid. Pete Hardin and Bert Zipperer take a closer look, in this edition of “The Milkweed.”