Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it

A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.

美国农村家庭食品不安全比例从2019年的12%升至2024年的近16%，配送成本与监管放松是重要推手。作者认为，恢复《罗宾逊-帕特曼法》等反垄断执法并重新要求运输许可覆盖农村，可改善农村生鲜供给。