The Conversation·2026-10-29 20:23· 6 d agoFeaturedRecommendation93.36

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

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

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