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.

美國農村家庭食品不安全比例從2019年的12%升至2024年的近16%，配送成本與監管放松是重要推手。作者認為，恢復《羅賓遜-帕特曼法》等反壟斷執法並重新要求運輸許可覆蓋農村，可改善農村生鮮供給。