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On the recordJuly 28, 2021
In the pandemic, we found that our food system and our food supply system, while it is incredibly efficient, is not resilient.
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Tom Vilsack
Democratic · Iowa

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Vilsack highlights the vulnerabilities in the food supply system revealed by the pandemic.

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