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Tom Philpott

Centreville, Virginia
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Retired news columnist (Military Update); book author (Glory Denied) Coast Guard vet. Directing folks off the bird to you-know-where to fight Trump-led fascism.
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Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa’s Deadly Water Crisis

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By Tom Philpott
| Yahoo Verified
Nick Schutt grew up as a free-range kid in the tiny central Iowa town of Williams in the early 1980s. His parents were small-scale farmers, but when the nation’s steepest agrarian crisis since the Great Depression hit, they worked jobs in town to make ends meet. Nick and his friends would often mount their bicycles in search of after-school adventure amid the corn and soybean fields.
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Trump’s big bill leaves the future of food aid in doubt

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By Tom Philpott
| The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) Verified
With food stamps no longer protected by the decades-old farm bill coalition, millions are likely to go hungry while Big Ag is showered with new subsidies Media partner Mother Jones , This Story’s Impact 8 million monthly web users 2million monthly social users This article was produced in collaboration with Mother Jones. It may not be reproduced without express permission from FERN. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact [email protected].
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Where Your Shelf-Stable Food Comes From

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By Tom Philpott
| Inverse Verified
If you want to see the birthplace of America’s ultraprocessed diet, take a drive through the upper Midwest in high summer. Before long, you'll be hypnotized by the shimmering green blanket of corn and soybeans that fuels our industrial food system. Radiating from their geographical and spiritual epicenter in Iowa, these two crops cover nearly two-thirds of U.S. cropland — an area equal to 1.7 Californias.
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