08/11/2022
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of August 10, 2022
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๐—ก๐—ฌ๐—–๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜†.๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด ๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€
โ€ข Providing Food Support Through Mutual Aid in East Brooklyn (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โ€ข ICYMI: โ€œExpirationโ€ Dates: Can You Donate Past-Date Packaged Foods? (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โ€ข East Harlem Restaurant Guide: 2022-2023 Edition (nycfoodpolicy.org)

๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜
๐˜•๐˜ ๐˜Š ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ด
โ€ข Survey Finds That New Yorkers Skip Meals Due to Unaffordable Food Prices (amNY)
โ€ข Opponents of Outdoor Dining Renew Fight Against Sheds (New York Times)
โ€ข Mayor Adams Announces NYC to Soon be Home to Largest Composting Program in Nation, Providing Every Household in Queens With Weekly Curbside Composting (NYC.gov)
โ€ข โ€˜No Dramaโ€™ Compost? N.Y.C. Is Expanding Food and Yard Waste Pickup (New York Times)
โ€ข $15 French Fries and $18 Sandwiches: Inflation Hits New York (New York Times)
โ€ข Rat-Proof Garbage Bins Launched as Part of Program to Reduce City Waste (News 12)
โ€ข How New York City Hopes to Win Its Long, Losing War on Trash (USA Times)
โ€ข NYC Food-Related Businesses Required to Recycle Organic Waste (Waste Today)
โ€ข Mayor Adams, Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Announce Settlement with Chipotle Mexican Grill, Securing $20 Million for Approximately 13,000 Workers (nyc.gov)
โ€ข Staten Island Dunkinโ€™ to Pay $260K in Fines, Restitution for Violating NYC Worker Laws (SI Live)
โ€ข Community Launches Flushing Food Collaborative to Assist New Yorkers (Patch)
โ€ข How a Couple Who Started a Food Bank Spend Their Sundays (New York Times)
โ€ข East Elmhurst Remembers Local Hero Who Brought Much Needed Relief to Neighbors During COVID-19 Pandemic (QNS)
โ€ข New York Agriculture Officials Address Growing Population of Spotted Lanternflies (CBS)
โ€ข NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 29 – August 5 (Patch)
โ€ข More Than Just a Lidl Love for NYC, Grocery Chain Plans Brooklyn Outpost (Commercial Observer)
โ€ข A Pioneer in NYCโ€™s Modern Korean Dining Scene Turns to Banchan Culture (Eater)
โ€ข Meet Brooklynโ€™s Newest Vegan Meatball Hero (Grub Street)
โ€ข Food Delivery Worker Run Over by Truck After Falling off Motorcycle (Spectrum News)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ
โ€ข More Americans Are Going Hungry, and It Costs More to Feed Them (New York Times)
โ€ข Food Insecurity Has Economic Root Causes (Nature)
โ€ข Redlined Neighborhoods Experience High Food Insecurity (Planetizen)
โ€ข Giving to Food Banks Remains High, Post-Pandemic (Food Bank News)
โ€ข Advocates Look for New Ways to Fill City ‘Food Desertsโ€™ (Pew Stateline)
โ€ข Food Prices Are Still Rising. Hereโ€™s How Americans Are Coping. (Washington Post)
โ€ข Food Insecurity May Be Closer Than You Think (Next Avenue)
โ€ข Developing New Measures to Assess Factors Associated with Food Insecurity in the U.S. (USDA)
โ€ข Why Improving Food Access in Buffalo Neighborhoods Wonโ€™t Be a โ€˜One-Size-Fits-All Solutionโ€™ (Buffalo News)
โ€ข Sen. Booker Delivers $1.05M to Address Food Insecurity During Phillipsburg Visit (Lehigh Valley Live)
โ€ข Sen. Hinchey Announces $50,000 to Help Address Food Insecurity (Morning Ag Clips)
โ€ข Community and School Gardens Donโ€™t Magically Sprout Bountiful Benefits (The Conversation)
โ€ข How Food Drives are Getting Healthier (Food Bank News)
โ€ข Report Estimates New Mexico Has 2nd Highest Food Insecurity for Youth (KRQE)
โ€ข Principal Opens Food Pantry Inside Polk County School Located in Food Desert (ABC Action News)
โ€ข Food Stamp-Focused Fintech Raises $22 Million (Forbes)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜บ
โ€ข The Future of Farm and Food Policy (The Hill)
โ€ข The FDAโ€™s New Pro GMO Propaganda (Food Politics)
โ€ข The Field Report: What the Historic Climate Bill Means for Farmers and the Food System (Civil Eats)
โ€ข The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Is an Opportunity for Transformational Change (Nature)
โ€ข Whatโ€™s New This Year for School Lunches? (American Heart Association News)
โ€ข Efforts Growing To Help Schools Serve Plant-Based Meals (K-12 Dive)
โ€ข These New Initiatives Aim to Make Vegan School Lunches The Norm (Veg News)
โ€ข Florida Private School Granted Exception to Biden LGBTQ+ Policy Changes, Will Receive Federal Meal Funding (The Hill)
โ€ข More Than 60 Countries Struggling to Afford Food Imports, Says Leaked UN Email (Politico)

๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ˆ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ
โ€ข โ€˜This Is Our Livelihoodโ€™: New York Farmers Oppose New Overtime Hours (Rochester First)
โ€ข Developing Community-Based Solutions for a Resilient Food System (Food Tank)
โ€ข Scientists Offer Blueprint for Sustainable Redesign of Food Systems (Phys.org)
โ€ข Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions (Food Tank)
โ€ข Why the Rise of Precision Agriculture Exposes Our Food Systems to New Threats (Fast Company)
โ€ข U.S. Farmers Need Incentives to Grow Organic Grains (Food Tank)
โ€ข Farmersโ€™ Battle Against, and Now For, Milkweed (Modern Farmer)
โ€ข Assemb. Woerner Discusses Problems Facing the Agriculture Industry in the Empire State (Spectrum News)
โ€ข To Boldly Grow Details the Joys of Growing Your Own Food (Food Tank)
โ€ข The Best Alternative Grain Flours to Have in Your Pantryโ€”If Thereโ€™s Enough to Go Around (Modern Farmer)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต
โ€ข US Senate Passes Historic Climate Bill (Grist)
โ€ข USDA Announces the Second Food Loss and Waste Innovation Fair (USDA.gov)
โ€ข New Yorkโ€™s Dairy Farmers Are Also Battling the Impact of Climate Change (Spectrum News)
โ€ข Agriculture Experts Say State Bill to Save Bees From Insecticides Goes Too Far (Spectrum News)
โ€ข Conservation Survey Finds Native New York State Pollinators at Risk (Phys)
โ€ข Are Criollo Cattle a Regenerative Solution to a 1,200-Year Megadrought? (Civil Eats)
โ€ข Mexicoโ€™s โ€˜Water Monsterโ€™ Is Uniting Farmers and Scientists (The Atlantic)
โ€ข Chinaโ€™s Cities Face Tough Choice: More Green Energy or Food (Bloomberg)
โ€ข Supermarket Food in the UK Could Soon Have Eco-Labels (EcoWatch)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด
โ€ข Food Prices Fell Sharply in July โ€” But the Respite May Not Last (CNBC)
โ€ข Amazon Sees Opening in Baby Formula Industry Shake-up (Politico)
โ€ข Demand for Grocery Delivery Cools as Food Costs Rise (New York Post)
โ€ข Inflation Is Helping Gig Companies Like Uber – And Hurting Their Worker (Washington Post)
โ€ข 7-Eleven Reportedly Acquires Delivery Startup, Intends to Compete With Doordash (Restaurant Dive)
โ€ข Richer People Are Eating More at Applebeeโ€™s and IHOP (CNN)
โ€ข Whole Foods Co-founder Plans to Launch Vegetarian Restaurant Chain (Restaurant Dive)
โ€ข Study: Over 66% Of Independent Restaurants Seeing Sales Declines From Inflation (Restaurant Dive)
โ€ข Higher Prices, Skimpier Portions and Apps โ€” How Fast-Food Chains Are Changing Value Deals (NBC)
โ€ข Hypocrisy At Amyโ€™s Kitchen: Can A Food Company Be Truly Sustainable When It Comes To Worker Rights? (Forbes)
โ€ข Egg Prices in US Jump 47% as Food Inflation Hits Highs Not Seen Since 1979 (Bloomberg)
โ€ข Seattle Passes Permanent 15% Delivery Fee Cap With Exceptions (Restaurant Dive)
โ€ข Demand for Italian Beef Is Booming. Thank โ€˜The Bear.โ€™ (New York Times)
โ€ข Inflation Rises in Denmark, Norway, Hitting Food Costs Hard (ABC)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ & ๐˜Š๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ
โ€ข When Sharing Seeds Grows More Than Just Food (Modern Farmer)
โ€ข Inside the Zambian Wedding Tradition Thatโ€™s All About Food (Eater)
โ€ข How Netflix’s Street Food: USA Highlights American Diversity (Movie Web)
โ€ข Cook the Vineyard Puts Focus on Black Food Writers (Vineyard Gazette)

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ
โ€ข Is It Safe to Eat Food After Its Sell-by Date? Usually, Yes. (USA Today)
โ€ข Seafood Fraud a Growing International Problem Impacting Food Safety, Study Finds (Phys.org)
โ€ข Using Insurance to Regulate Food Safety (The Regulatory Review)
โ€ข USDA Wants to Reinstate Organic Welfare Standards; Could Benefit Food Safety (Food Safety News)
โ€ข Links Between Parental Exposure to Pesticides, Childhood Cancer Explored (Health Day)
โ€ข Senate Sits on Esteban Nomination as USDAโ€™s Under Secretary for Food Safety (Food Safety News)

๐—™๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜€ ๐——๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜
โ€ข Food Security and Nutrition in the World (The Lancet)
โ€ข Systematic Evidence and Gap Map of Research Linking Food Security and Nutrition to Mental Health (Nature Communications)
โ€ข Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: A Spatial Analysis of Community Food-Growing Spaces and Neighborhood Demographics in Philadelphia (Social Science and Medicine)
โ€ข Sustainable Agrifood Systems for a Post-growth World (Nature Sustainability)
โ€ข The Vulnerability of Meat Processing and Other Food Processing Facilities to Airborne Viral Threats (European Society of Medicine)
โ€ข Main Retailers in Which Mexican Households Acquire Their Food Supply (Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior)

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