Articles by Sr. Staff Writer Nathanael Johnson
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Food desert mirage: Better groceries may not bring better health
A hard look at the effort to bring fresh food to the urban poor suggests that it may not be an effective way to improve their lives.
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There will be dollars: Obama signs a new farm bill into law
It took forever and nobody's totally happy with it. See you again in 2019 or so when the whole thing starts all over again.
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The brutal cost of a cheap chicken
Two new books detail the inner workings of our factory-style poultry and meat system -- and the long history of our love/hate relationship with it.
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Food hubs: Sustainable agriculture’s missing link
Before food hubs were trendy, Veritable Vegetable was figuring out how to make the concept work.
