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MIDDLETOWN, Md. -- There is an argument to be made that the coronavirus pandemic could change the food supply chain for the long term. It may disrupt across the board our reliance on distant producers, processing plants and large chain grocery stores. In the process, it would connect many of us to local food in the same way our parents and grandparents were. For months during this pandemic, consumers who used to drive to the supermarket to buy prepackaged food have instead gotten food delivery literally from a farm to their table. People are getting hooked on direct food sourcing...

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke called for the establishment of farm-to-table restaurants in every community to combat poor nutrition. Farm-to-table restaurants are part of a socially-conscious movement favored by wealthy urbanites that often feature small, elaborately designed fare from local farms and are typically very expensive. The Democratic presidential candidate made the gaffe at a Friday event hosted at a brewery by the Nevada State Democratic Party in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb.

"We've only had a Whole Foods for a month and already we don't need cops." The town of South Park has come a long way since it was granted a Whole Foods, becoming much more PC. And in Wednesday's new episode, "Naughty Ninjas," the show will do away with "racist, trigger-happy" cops roaming the town. "The ever more PC citizens of South Park decide that they no longer need a police force," according to Comedy Central. "As the first American town to get rid of their cops, they plan to celebrate their advanced sensibilities with a PC Carnival." Season 19...