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The pandemic revealed our food system is broken. We can fix it. Miriam E. Nelson © Provided by The Boston Globe The Daily Table team in Central Square. Two days before his inauguration, Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, loaded groceries into boxes at a food bank in Philadelphia. At the time, Biden reportedly acknowledged that hunger and food insecurity in our country had escalated precipitously since COVID began. Recent survey data show that more than a quarter of US families with children are food insecure their parents lack regular access to affordable, healthy food. That’s up from 13.6 percent just one year ago. Massachusetts has seen a 59 percent rise in food insecurity since 2018, the highest rate of increase in the nation. Yet with stay-at-home orders and social distancing in place last spring, we saw farmers from Florida to California destroying crops, dumping milk, and destroying millions of animals because chain restaurants and large institutions coul

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