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Can government-owned grocery stores help solve America’s food-desert problem?
A novel solution to give Americans better access to fresh food is picking up steam across the country: government-owned, government-operated grocery stores. Such stores are touted by proponents as ...
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Editor’s Desk: A bonus episode of Buzzkill!
By Brent Cunningham All six episodes of Buzzkill are out, and we hope you’re enjoying them. But at FERN we’re givers, so check out this bonus episode, recorded earlier this month in New York City at ...
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Editor’s Desk: One story, delivered in longform, shortform, text, audio, and more
By Theodore Ross Yesterday was an important day for FERN, and if you connect with us on a regular basis on social media or our website, I hope you noticed. We published “Immigrants on the ...
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FERN’s Friday Feed: Immigrants on the line
Remy went home and cut together a montage of his footage from inside JBS and around Greeley and recorded a voiceover with the information from Ebah. This isn’t a job for lazy ...
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Trouble on the line
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, ...
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Editor’s Desk Promo Tile
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, ...
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FERN’s Friday Feed: Life, death, and sourdough starter
“Joe, my friend of three decades, suddenly died at 57. … After the first night of shiva, Joe’s sister took me into his apartment, which was next to her own. Joe had lived there in New York City with ...
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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, ...
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Anatomy of a convenience food
Since nutrition-facts labeling was first introduced by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 1973, the back of the box has been a controversial space. Countless FDA rule changes, congressional ...
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Shrimp replacement theory
On a plate in front of me are three shrimp: 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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The problem with ultraprocessed foods
A FERN-Inverse special series on ultraprocessed foods — what they are, why they’re everywhere, and what they’re doing to our diet ...