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Universal Food Stamps? Why More Food Stamp Recipients Prove the Failure of the Industrial Food System (flag)
sharonastyk.com — http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090103/NEWS02/901030330/0/SPORTS I think the above is an important story, one that demonstrates an increasing shift in our society’s relationship to its food. Vermont’s policy change on food stamps is likely to be mirrored by other states, and ...
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Energy Bulletin - — ... .) -BA Universal Food Stamps? If the Industrial Food System No Longer Provides Cheap Food, What Are We Keeping It For, Anyway? Sharon Astyk, Casaubon’s Book I think the above is an important story, one that demonstrates an increasing shift in our society’s relationship to its food. Vermont’s policy change on food stamps is likely to be mirrored by other states, and this represents both a fundamental shift in the reality of American need, and also, I think, the final stake in the heart of the industrial food system. ...

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