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Sharp rise in livestock antibiotic use threatens life-saving medications The sale of medically important antibiotics for use in livestock surged in 2024, raising serious concerns about overuse of these medications worsening drug resistance.

My new piece for @ewgofficial.bsky.social released today: New data from the FDA show sales of medically important antibiotics for use in livestock rose 15.8% from 2023 to 2024, a greater increase than in any recent years after a sharp decline between 2015 and 2017. www.ewg.org/news-insight...

America's New Dietary Guidelines The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.

With so much bluster, everybody thinks the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) must be radical.

But could they actually be indecisive?

On sodium: "Avoid highly processed ... foods that are salty," and yet for meats, "If preferred, flavor with salt, spices, and herbs."

realfood.gov

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The 2025-30 DGAs are out.

New Dietary Guidelines Delayed Until Early 2026

Delayed (again) until 2026.

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts

Link:

Quote from NYT. “I went to the dumpster behind a Walmart, and I grabbed as much as I could."

United States, November 2025.

States Grapple With Fundamental Change in Food Stamps

Related:

Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.

Of potential interest given the current funding environment.

Between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024.

Explore the interactive @fao.org World Hunger Map to browse the latest global estimates of hunger and food insecurity in the world.

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And a happy public service recognition week to you too.

New HHS poverty guidelines mean that even for a single adult working FT year-round, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...

Sigh, of course.

We need similar studies for the dollar store surge observed over the last decade. I fear the outcomes will be analogous…

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Most nutrition for the money?

Grains, legumes, and tubers.

True in 1894, still true today.

Source:

Honestly very impressed with this data viz.

Chart 3 of an 1894 U.S. Department of Agriculture publication titled Pecuniary Economy of Food. Depicts amounts of nutrients obtained in different foods for 10 cents.

Food Economics, 1894 Edition.
Beans have always been efficient.

Full report and data here:

Another key finding: of those 770,000 experiencing homelessness, nearly 150,000 were children, an increase of 33 percent over 2023.

How Flight Attendants Grounded Trump’s Shutdown Sara Nelson, the flight attendants union leader whose strike threat helped end the government shutdown, speaks to Jacobin. “There are no labor rights without the right to strike.”

Also the Flight Attendants Union threatened a general strike citing serious safety concerns. Solidarity among workers.

Dollar Stores and Food Access for Rural Households in the United States, 2008‒2020 | AJPH | Vol. 113 Issue 3 Dollar stores have rapidly expanded their food offerings in recent years. These foods tend to be higher in calories and lower in nutrients, raising public health concerns, especially in rural and low-...

Also glad to see dollar stores research by folks like Wenhui Feng, @elinatpage.bsky.social, @seanbcash.bsky.social.

For many, dollar stores are important, if under-explored parts of food access.

(here's a link to their AJPH paper cited in the article: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....)

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the VERY least

And a reminder. These guidelines are the cornerstone for federal food and nutrition programs, including SNAP and school meals.

More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on US dietary guidelines Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables.

The release of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans next year has the potential to be very interesting.

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tis the season

A farm worker'w hand holding up strawberries just harvested

Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou