If Mamdani’s grocery experiment can survive the pilot stage, it’d benefit from more scale, public wholesale investments, and wraparound antitrust enforcement, helping public grocers and small private stores alike.

While still without definitive proof, the FDA links states with the largest cyclospora outbreaks to lettuce from produce giant, Taylor Farms. Foodborne illnesses hit harder when one company controls so much of the food supply and corporate power threatens federal food safety standards.

Small dairy farms in the Northeast are struggling. 80 workers stand to lose their jobs as DFA closes a historic Vermont plant. Vermont Senator Peter Welch introduces legislation to stop the cycle of consolidation.