Tamar Haspel is a freelance journalist. She writes the James Beard Award-winning Washington Post column Unearthed, which tackles food from every angle: agriculture, nutrition, obesity, and the food environment. Her book, To Boldly Grow, is about good things that happen when you get your food firsthand through gardening, foraging, fishing, or hunting. Haspel has written about food and science for publications including Slate, Fortune, Discover, Vox, Self, and others, and she speaks all over the world about food issues, including at the James Beard Foundation conference, FoodTank summits, SXSW, the National Academy of Sciences, and several universities. She and her husband walk the talk: growing their own vegetables, raising chickens, and hunting and fishing for their meals.
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Nearly 40 million Americans are food insecure — many in food deserts without access to affordable or nutritious food —and this same failing system is pumping nearly one third...