Every year unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease-the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food
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The city attorney accuses large manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs.
People who are just dumped through the border gate find themselves in cities like Tijuana. Families get meals at the food distribution sites because they don’t have enough money to eat.
It could eventually cut down on the production of traditional chocolate, which degrades soil and requires much fertilizer and pesticides
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
The Trump administration eliminated two food safety committees: the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection and National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a warning that food safety is not a USDA priority.
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