8 h. ago Why small farmers can’t fix our hunger problem | Cassandra Loftlin

Big farmers grab the lion’s share of US government support, and recent cuts have chipped away at small growers’ markets and marginsThe most significant food system failure since the pandemic was not a natural disaster: in October, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) was temporarily suspended for the month of November due to the government shutdownMore than 40 million people had to ration food, skip meals and make sacrifices we might associate with the Great Depression, not 21st-century America. Churches, community groups and neighbors sprang into action. They checked on single moms juggling multiple jobs, elderly friends living alone, people with disabilities and large families with children too young for school lunch programs. And though food stamps were restored, the Trump administration is now threatening to pull Snap funds from Democratic-led states. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago ‘One bite and he was hooked’: from Kenya to Nepal, how parents are battling ultra

Five families around the world share their struggles to keep their children away from UPFsParents and young people: share your concerns about ultra-processed foods (UPFs)The scourge of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is global. While their consumption is particularly high in the west, forming more than half the average diet in the UK and the US, for example, UPFs are replacing fresh food in diets on every continent.This month, the world’s largest review on the health threats of UPFs was published in the Lancet. It warned that such foods are exposing millions of people to long-term harm, and called for urgent action. Earlier this year Unicef revealed that more children around the world were obese than underweight for the first time, as junk food overwhelms diets, with the steepest rises in low- and middle-income countries. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Mum 'denied' own children food and took one with her to buy drugs, court hears

The mother is alleged to have an 'inability to prioritise the children’s needs over hers'

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33 h. ago British man facing death penalty in Bali over claims he smuggled 1kg of cocaine in his backpack

Kial Robinson, 29, appeared in court over drug smuggling charges

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50 h. ago Food banks face winter surge as record six parcels a minute to be delivered in festive season

Almost three quarters of a million food parcels were provided for children last winter

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61 h. ago Plea deal for drug kingpin El Chapo’s son details abduction of cartel boss

Joaquín Guzmán López’s alleged kidnapping was to show cooperation with US leaders, attorney saysArmed men entered through a window to ambush Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the most elusive of the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders, who was then loaded onto a plane, drugged and spirited across the border to the United States, according to details revealed on Monday in the plea hearing of the drug trafficker who abducted him.Joaquín Guzmán López, the 39-year-old son of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprise in federal court in Chicago after admitting his role in overseeing the transport of tens of thousands of kilograms (pounds) of drugs to the US. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago El Chapo's son 'Little Chapo' pleads guilty to drug trafficking charges in US

Joaquín 'Little Chapo' Guzmán López, son of notorious drug lord El Chapo, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in a Chicago court, months after his brother Ovidio entered a plea deal

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4 d. ago Even I was once overweight. So trust me, this 30 DAY detox plan will get you thin WITHOUT Ozempic... but if you want to stay skinny, you'll have to make one major sacrifice: JILLIAN MICHAELS

I wasn't born a fitness expert or a health enthusiast. I was an overweight kid who used food the way a lot of struggling children do.

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8 d. ago 'Obsessive' plans to steal drugs from property where Joanne Penney was shot dead, court told

Joshua Gordon, who denies murdering Joanne Penney, says he pleaded with the man who shot her not to carry out the plan

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9 d. ago Man 'arranged for 25 others to pay for sex with vulnerable woman in his flat'

Thomas Crossey, 56, from Belfast, allegedly used a vulnerable woman over a four-year period by providing her with drugs in exchange for sex, a court heard

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1 week ago Parents may have found a way to prevent children’s peanut allergies. Here’s how

Peanut allergy is the most common cause of fatal food reactions

Society

2 w. ago Brit pilot jailed for chemsex murder of man he arranged to meet for 'weekend of passion'

Aaron Rainbow, 50, originally from Surrey, had “violently and intentionally” killed Oscar Tornero, 38, by stabbing him six times after they binged on drugs, a Spanish court heard

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2 w. ago Mother and her three children were murdered by her sister's drug

Sharaz Ali was 'motivated by jealousy and fuelled by drink and drugs' when he set fire to the home of Bryonie Gawith and her three small children in the early hours of August 21 last year, a trial heard.

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2 w. ago Couple and their young children all die after suspected food poisoning during holiday to Turkey

The family-of-four fell violently ill at their hotel in Istanbul on November 11, just two days after travelling from Hamburg, Germany , to the Turkish capital.

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2 w. ago South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state has used gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash against the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, had been sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to two other murders. Bryant’s lawyers had argued in final appeals that the sentencing judge had been unable to consider his brain damage from his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, but South Carolina’s supreme court declined to halt the execution on Monday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Traitors’ Jonny Holloway claims he DID sleep with Charlotte Chilton amid paternity row – but she denies it

CHARLOTTE Chilton has gone to war with her Traitors co-star Jonny Holloway as he sensationally claims they DID sleep together - despite her firm denial. The explosive turn in the mum of one's bitter paternity battle has left Charlotte "shellshocked". In an interview with the Daily Mail, ex-military man Jonny has offered to take a...

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2 w. ago 'German Gisele Pelicot' trial begins as man, 61, is accused of drugging, raping and filming his wife for years in chilling echo of French case

The trial at the Regional Court of Aachen echoes Pelicot's ordeal, where she was drugged and abused by her husband and dozens of other men for almost a decade.

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3 w. ago Trump ripped for invoking Bible’s command to care for children after fighting to keep SNAP food stamps from poorest kids

‘You literally fought in court to strip families of food assistance,’ Gavin Newsom tells president

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3 w. ago Peanut allergies have plummeted among kids since 2017 – what happened?

Blockbuster research has upended assumptions about the allergy. Experts shared what parents should know about introducing food allergensAccording to a paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics this month, the number of peanut allergy diagnoses among children has dropped over 40% since 2017.The reason? Food allergy guidelines have undergone a massive sea change in the past decade. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Peanut allergies have plummeted among US kids since 2017 – what happened?

Blockbuster research has upended assumptions about the allergy. Experts shared what parents should know about introducing food allergensAccording to a paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics this month, the number of peanut allergy diagnoses among children has dropped over 40% since 2017.The reason? Food allergy guidelines have undergone a sea change in the past decade. Continue reading...

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