143 - COVID-19 and the Food System

COVID-19 has revealed many weaknesses about the US food system: 14 million children are now regularly missing meals while farmers are dumping millions of pounds of food, and COVID-19 death rates are higher among people with food-related illnesses such as diabetes. Dr. Roy Steiner and Paula Daniels, co-contributors to Reset the Table, a new report from the Rockefeller Foundation, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these failures and propose solutions to fix the supply chain, close gaps in healthy food access, and keep food workers safe.