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

October 29, 2026 · 12:23 pm 1 sources

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• Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it
  This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. · October 29, 2026 12:23
  A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.