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A former dairy worker is leading the push to close a loophole in labor laws. Agriculture businesses claim farmworkers are trying an end run through the courts after repeatedly failing…

ByKate Pastor 2Comments

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Jun 2017

Government Health

Advocates Hope That Food Issues Will Find a Place on City’s Campaign Table

Advocates hope access to healthy food, expanding school breakfast and ways to address hunger and the forces that drive it are issues that candidates for city office will be forced…

ByKate Pastor 0Comments

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Feb 2017

In Depth

What Trump Means for Hunger and Nutrition in New York City

If Congressional Republicans slash food support, it will hurt—but there are steps the city can take to boost access to nutrition.

ByElizabeth Michaelson Monaghan 1Comment

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Nov 2016

In Depth Investigations

Choking Incident in NYC School Kitchen Raised Alarms Over Chicken

‘The School Food service manager was eating lunch when he began to choke on the bone. The Heimlich maneuver was performed and he spit out the bone.’

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2016

In Depth Investigations

City’s School Food System Suspends Use of Some Chicken After Bones Found

For the second time in as many months, the New York City Department of Education this week suspended plans to serve school-lunch items after media inquiries concerning food safety.

ByJarrett Murphy 3Comments

28

Oct 2016

In Depth

Video: How Red Hook’s ‘Added Value’ Grew Back After Sandy

Added Value Farms is an urban farm and compost operation in Red Hook that offers healthy food and community training. Damage from Superstorm Sandy threatened all of that.

ByMelissa Rose Cooper 0Comments

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Sep 2016

In Depth Investigations

City Schools’ Food Program Struggles with Pizza Problems

The city’s massive school-lunch program stopped serving frozen pizza in May because of a mold scare. After DOE allowed deliveries to proceed in August, a new complaint surfaced.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

14

Sep 2016

In Depth Video

Video: Training Community Chefs for Brooklyn’s Kitchens

Sometimes the push to eat healthier can feel like a foreign force. One Brooklyn program trains Bed-Stuy residents to teach their neighbors a better way to eat.

ByKizzy Cox 0Comments

14

Jul 2016

In Depth

Growing Fish and Food Together and Attacking Racial Disparities in Bushwick

Aquaponics relies on the interaction of fish, whose waste feeds the plants, and plants, whose digestive process purifies the water. But at Oko Farms in Brooklyn, success also depends on…

ByKizzy Cox 1Comment

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Jun 2016

In Depth

Saving NYC’s Food Waste From Both Landfill and Compost

While composting food waste is better that simply burying it in landfills, both techniques have their costs, and both involve a fundamental failure: The food could have been eaten.

ByGuglielmo Mattioli 2Comments

Lawsuit Seeks to Win Organizing Rights for New York’s Farmworkers

Advocates Hope That Food Issues Will Find a Place on City’s Campaign Table

What Trump Means for Hunger and Nutrition in New York City

Choking Incident in NYC School Kitchen Raised Alarms Over Chicken

City’s School Food System Suspends Use of Some Chicken After Bones Found

Video: How Red Hook’s ‘Added Value’ Grew Back After Sandy

City Schools’ Food Program Struggles with Pizza Problems

Video: Training Community Chefs for Brooklyn’s Kitchens

Growing Fish and Food Together and Attacking Racial Disparities in Bushwick

Saving NYC’s Food Waste From Both Landfill and Compost

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