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40 McNuggets for $13.99 sounds like an unbelievable deal. So, maybe it is. Groups like the Sustainable Food Trust are on a mission to demonstrate how, in the current commodity food system, big corporations can offer shockingly low prices and still rake in profits because they cut corners at every step along the supply chain, offloading long-term costs onto the public while duping them into thinking their dinner was a bargain. Advertisement: For example, companies pay wages too low to support families, shifting a portion of their labor costs onto taxpayers (in the form of nutrition benefi...

Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS. Jan 13 2021 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity and disrupted food systems and food supply chains in developed and developing countries alike. In the United States, millions of Americans struggle to put food on the table. Around the world, according to the United Nations over 270 million are hungry, and this is expected to continue to increase.  As a brand new year begins, I can’t help but think what must be done to mitigate these worrying trend? First and foremost, there should be continued monitoring of the food insecurity statist...

Episode 412 Are Alt Meats Better for the Planet? Aired: Wednesday, December 16th 2020 SHARE HOSTED BY Lisa Held Forecasts point to the market for plant- and cell-based meat alternatives exploding over the next decade, largely because of the sustainability claims companies make when marketing these food products. But while it’s true that diets that include more plants and fewer animal products (especially beef) have climate benefits, burgers and nuggets engineered and processed to mimic meat have different environmental impacts than a bowl of rice and...

Solve the climate crisis. but by then, it will be too late. we need to do this now. [ cheers ] >> joining me is varshini prakash, the cofounder and executive director of the sunrise movement, a group of young environmental activists that joined congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez to launch the green new deal earlier this year. what was it like out there today? >> it was undescribable. there were just throngs of people. i was in a crowd of 100,000 to 250,000 people of predominantly children, high schoolers, 20-somethings. it was both exhilarating and heartbreaking to think that all these chi...

>> joining me is the cofounder and executive director of the sunrise movement, a group that joined senator ocasio-cortez to launch the green new deal earlier this year. what was it like out there today? >> it was undescribable. there were just throngs of people. i was in a crowd of 100 to 150,000 people of prom determinantly children, high schoolers. it was heartbreaking to think that all these children are asking for is a shot at a livable future. >> in the imagery i saw, greta is the median age. there are so many elementary school kids, ten years younger than her, so many older college kids....