T]the once common idea that the best Texas barbecue comes from long-running small-town operations is increasingly obsolete. In 2003, the Texas legislature declared Lockhart, a small town about ...

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 ...

In “Bird Flu in Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster,” FERN’s latest publishing partnership with The New York Times opinion section, science journalist and FERN contributor Maryn McKenna describes the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Inverse special series on ultraprocessed foods — what they are, why they’re everywhere, and what they’re doing to our diet ...

By Theodore Ross On June 27, 2022, 66 undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America climbed into the back of a refrigerated tractor trailer in San Antonio, Texas, having already used ...

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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, ...