Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out

And avocados. And peaches. March 7, 2018 Top Food News [Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out]( With its year-round sunshine and vast tracts of fertile land, California is one of the jewels of US food production, providing a third of the nation's vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts. Here's why that's a major problem. ([Mother Jones]() The warped environmentalism of America's biggest industrial meat producer. ([Mother Jones]() Mexico buys a lot of US dairy exports. And other reasons why the trade relationship is very important. ([Farm Futures]() Can co-ops make it in today's market? Times are a-changin' for grocery stores. ([Civil Eats]() Food stamp funding is already insufficient. And that's before Donald Trump's proposed cuts and changes. ([Washington Post]() Woof. The FDA found a euthanasia drug in more than a dozen dog food products. ([Food Safety News]() —ADVERTISEMENT— [Food Tank]( Support hard-hitting journalism. If you value what you read from Mother Jones and want to see more of it, please make a tax-deductible [one-time]( or [monthly donation]( today and help fund our unrelenting, nonprofit journalism. This Week in Podcasts "When I was looking for a job, it was very discouraging," says Michelle Mattox, whose felony record prevented her from landing work. "People don’t accept the fact you can change your life and become somebody better." But then Mattox found out about a new opportunity to work as a chef—and everything changed. Hear it on Mother Jones' Bite, episode 50: "[This Year's Best Movies Are Secretly About Food](" The origins of the banana peel slipping gag. ([Burnt Toast]() Is expensive vodka really better? Hear what the lab tests revealed. ([Planet Money]() Exclusive to Newsletter Subscribers "Wilmot isn’t cooking until something better comes along; she’s cooking because she loves to and wants to make it a career." So writes Amanda Shapiro in [this fascinating day in the life of Nana Araba Wilmot, a line cook at one of New York's fanciest restaurants](. "She reads Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for career inspiration and Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking for practical skills. Today, on the half-hour subway ride to Le Coucou, she reads the Bible on her iPad. (She was raised Episcopalian outside Philadelphia.) She listens to Solange to feel calm; hiplife, a Ghanaian style of hip-hop, to get pumped." Read the full diary [here](. That's all, folks! We'll be back next Wednesday with more. —[Maddie]( and [Kiera]( Questions/concerns/feedback? Email [newsletters@motherjones.com](. Hungry for more food news? Follow Mother Jones Food on [Twitter]( and [Facebook](. Did someone forward this to you? [Click here]( to sign up to get more Food for Thought in your inbox! —ADVERTISEMENT— [Food Tank]( Food for Thought comes to you from Mother Jones, an award-winning, investigative journalism outlet that was founded as a nonprofit magazine in 1976. [Donate]( [Mother Jones Store]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} by newsletters@motherjones.com Mother Jones | 222 Sutter Street, #600 San Francisco, CA USA 94108 [Advertise]( | [Edit Profile]( | [Email Preferences](