foodstuffs

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Government vouchers lift income to $150 a month but that still falls far short of the amount a family needs to buy basic foodstuffs -- $645, according to private estimates.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Museums spent the past few years sinking resources into outsmarting climate-change activists who sloshed tomato soup, cake icing and other foodstuffs all over iconic masterpieces to get attention.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

He slashed tariffs on imported foodstuffs such as bananas, despite the uncomfortable message that sends about what the other tariffs might be doing to prices.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

These activities included relief schemes, such as the provision of foodstuffs, as well as caring for and educating children, and maintaining medical services, she said.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden