Food

Two black cows stick their heads under a fence to eat out of a trough.

Who Regulates the Food We Eat? 

There’s a fight brewing over who will regulate U.S. food — and who picks up the tab. Here’s what Kansas and Missouri producers think about the EATS Act.

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Lovell Holloway, general manager for Vantage Airport Group, the lead developer of KCI's concessions.

Search Continues for Food and Retail Employees at New KCI

Businesses hope to employ 1,000 workers at the new Kansas City International Airport (KCI) terminal. But they remain about 400 employees short of that goal.

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A man in a gray shirt and black pants bends over a row of short bean plants situated at the base of a trellis. With his hand he demonstrates the size of the beans yielded by the plants to address food security.

A Lawrence Farmer’s Innovative Approach to Food Security 

LAWRENCE, Kansas — Pantaleon Florez III looks at food security as an issue to be solved.   He asks those working in local food systems (and himself) what they would do if their community didn’t have a hunger issue.   “That’s my new narrative: ‘What would you do if you didn’t have to do this work?’”…

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Chef Sara Osborn prepares a meal.

Turning Ugly Food Waste into Delightful Meals

Kanbe’s Markets, which diverts food otherwise headed to landfills, has teamed up with restaurants to see what their chefs could come up with using “ugly food.”

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Two people wear shirts that say "I support Mil Fams" and load food into the back of a vehicle.

Hunger in the Ranks: More Military Families Report Going Hungry

Growing numbers of military families are going hungry. An estimated one in five military families report that they are food insecure.

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