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Editor’s Desk: A multimedia dissection of ultraprocessed food
By Theodore Ross FERN’s latest special series, “The Problem with Ultraprocessed Foods,” published last week in partnership with Inverse, with five stories on a food category that we assert has come ...
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Editor’s Desk: Buzzkill episode 6 — a glimpse of a post-pollinator world
By Theodore Ross Today marks the release of the sixth and final installment of Buzzkill, FERN’s podcast series on the pollinator crisis. “A Post-Pollinator World,” which was reported by Buzzkill ...
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Shrimp replacement theory
One is wild, one is farmed, and the last one isn’t a shrimp at all. It’s a vegan “shrimp,” one of several brands that have come to market in the last decade.
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Where your (ultraprocessed) food comes from
If you want to see the birthplace of America’s ultraprocessed diet, take a drive through the upper Midwest in high summer. Before long, you’ll be hypnotized by the shimmering green blanket of corn ...
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FERN’s Friday Feed: Deadly passage
In June 2022, 53 people from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras died in the back of a tractor trailer in San Antonio in what has often been described as the worst immigration-related disaster in U.S.
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Matt Gross
Matt Gross is a writer, editor, and digital strategist who’s held top jobs at RunnersWorld.com, Realtor.com, Boston.com, and BonAppetit.com. Once upon a time, he was the Frugal Traveler for The ...
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Brent Cunningham
The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...