https://thefern.org/2025/05/reap-sow-video-trouble-on-the-line/
REAP/SOW Video: Trouble on the line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2022/03/the-fight-for-british-columbias-forests/
The controversial biofuel threatening British Columbia’s forests | Food and Environment Reporting...
Apr 24, 2022 - On a chilly afternoon last autumn, I padded down a faint path beneath a grove of hemlock trees in British Columbia’s inland temperate rainforest.
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What good is beef? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - At the age of twelve, I parted ways with my religion. All it took was a sandwich. I broke the news to my father in the evening. He had just come home…
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https://thefern.org/2017/10/changing-face-woods-work/
The changing face of woods work | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/documentary-short-ferns-special-issue-on-food-and-power/
Documentary short: FERN’s special issue on food and power | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 30, 2025 - Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News.
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/editors-desk-live-from-d-c-its-forked/
Editor’s Desk: Live from D.C., it’s Forked! | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Food is power | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 2, 2025 - Many communities have foods that define them: Los Angeles has tacos, Green River, Utah, has melons, while New Mexico’s Hatch Valley is famous for its green…
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National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships | SEJ
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https://thefern.org/special-series/switchyard-food-issue/
Switchyard Food Issue | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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FERN Staff | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Theodore Ross (he/him)is Editor-in-Chief. He is an editor, writer, and television producer with more than 20 years of experience at national publications…
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https://thefern.org/2025/03/where-your-ultraprocessed-food-comes-from/
Where your (ultraprocessed) food comes from | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 2, 2025 - 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...
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https://thefern.org/2020/05/a-burst-of-home-grown-food-farming-in-alaska/
A burst of home-grown food, farming, in Alaska | Food and Environment Reporting Network
May 21, 2020 - Meghan Gervais is a commercial fisherman and mother of three who lives in Homer, Alaska, a town with a single highway connecting it to the rest of the...
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https://thefern.org/2025/11/trouble-at-sea-a-video-documentary/
Trouble at sea, a video documentary | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 1, 2025 - Despite having the most prolific remaining wild salmon runs on Earth, Alaska leads the world in salmon hatchery production. The state’s modern hatchery...
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Is farm labor at risk? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Just how fragile is Alaska’s food supply chain? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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When climate adaptation goes wrong | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan 19, 2023 - Asadul Islam peers over the edge of a boardwalk on his pond in southwest Bangladesh and watches as hundreds of caged crabs float past beneath him.
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/the-strange-future-of-lab-grown-meat/
The strange future of lab-grown meat | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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The farmworkers in California’s fire zones | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Ethanol is just comically inefficient solar energy | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/02/a-farm-bill-for-farmworkers/
The essential workers missing from the farm bill | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - Farm work has long been among the most dangerous jobs in America. But while Congress has had many chances to bolster labor protections in the 18 versions of...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/eating-bitterness/
Eating bitterness | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Nov 14, 2025 - Against a vast wash of sagebrush and volcanic rock in Utah’s West Desert, Chris Merritt, an archaeologist with the State Historic Preservation Office…
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https://thefern.org/2018/09/india-is-awash-in-palm-oil-and-health-takes-a-hit/
India is awash in palm oil, and health takes a hit | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2023/12/buzzkill/
Buzzkill | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 18, 2024 - Judy Wu-Smart brings me to the scene of the crime. It’s a green yard framed by trees, with a patch of flowers in the middle, set among farm fields half an...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/ghanas-toxic-gold-rush/
Ghana’s toxic gold rush | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Murdered in the name of palm oil: a Q&A with Jocelyn Zuckerman | Food and Environment Reporting...
Dec 10, 2016 - Palm oil is the secret ingredient in, well, nearly everything. From dish soap to peanut butter, the oil shows up in cleaning products and cosmetics and…
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https://thefern.org/2025/03/immigrants-on-the-line-2/
Immigrants on the line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 10, 2025 - In early December 2023, through a scrim of swirling flurries, Mackenson Remy steered his minivan past an open gate in the security fence surrounding a gray…
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/anatomy-of-a-convenience-food/
Anatomy of a convenience food | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/dont-eat-like-a-pro/
(Don’t) eat like a pro | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 18, 2025 - A couple of years ago, when my daughter Sandy was in fifth grade, she fell in love with Gatorade. A couple of times a week, she’d beg me for a few dollars...
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https://thefern.org/2018/01/unlikely-climate-crusade-trump-country/
An unlikely climate crusade in Trump country | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 22, 2019 - It was a quarter after eight on a steamy August morning when Rachel Grantham rumbled up in a big black pickup truck. The 26-year-old, six-foot-three...
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Children Left Vulnerable By World Bank Amid Push For Development | Food and Environment Reporting...
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https://thefern.org/2023/08/why-are-we-paying-for-crop-failures-in-the-desert/
Why are we paying for crop failures in the desert? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Aug 10, 2023 - In mid-July in Phoenix, a man demonstrated to a local news station how to cook steak on the dashboard of his car. The city sweltered through a nearly...
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https://thefern.org/2023/06/climate-savior-or-monsanto-of-the-sea/
Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 15, 2024 - Early on a cool spring morning, in far Downeast Maine, Severine von Tscharner Welcome and her husband, Terran, scrambled along a point jutting into Cobscook...
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https://thefern.org/blog_posts/ferns-friday-feed-parrots-in-peril/
FERN’s Friday Feed: Parrots in peril | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Nov 20, 2025 - “Each one of us has a unique scent profile, like a fingerprint. Everything from our personality type – such as extroversion, dominance and neuroticism –...
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https://thefern.org/2021/10/one-alaska-bay-is-booming-with-salmon-for-now/
One Alaska bay is booming with salmon, for now | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 24, 2022 - On a mid-July afternoon, when the tide was starting to come in on the Naknek River, the Bandle family’s commercial fishing nets lay stretched across the...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/podcast-ferns-special-issue-on-food-and-power-in-the-west/
Podcast: FERN’s special issue on food and power in the west | Food and Environment Reporting...
Sep 30, 2025 - Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News.
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https://thefern.org/2023/10/alone-on-the-range/
Alone on the Range | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 30, 2024 - The job was Gustavo’s idea, and the escape was his idea, too. “If he kills us, he kills us,” he told his kid brother, Iván, one night after work in...
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https://thefern.org/2025/11/offshore-aquaculture-is-coming-to-the-gulf-coast/
Offshore aquaculture is coming to the Gulf Coast | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 4, 2025 - The world now eats more farmed seafood than we eat from the wild ocean. That’s turned farming fish into a massive business, one that American consumers...
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https://thefern.org/2024/05/the-u-s-mexico-tortilla-war/
The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/10/we-need-more-native-american-restaurants/
We need more Native American restaurants | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 1, 2024 - If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity.
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/power-failure/
Power failure | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 18, 2024 - I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud...
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https://thefern.org/special-series/the-farm-bill-fight/
The Farm Bill Fight | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/special-series/livestock-and-rural-communities/
Livestock and Rural Communities | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2016/12/violent-costs-global-palm-oil-boom/
The violent costs of the global palm oil boom | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 15, 2019 - Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck…
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/the-joyful-responsibility-of-cutting-fish/
The joyful responsibility of cutting fish | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 19, 2025 - Everyone had a job. The men and boys drove the boats upriver to dip the nets in the river and seine. The women waited. Never wondering. There were always...
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/guardians-of-our-food/
Guardians of our food | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 19, 2025 - Assume for a moment that our Earth is a bubble, containing finite physical material, moisture and the solar energy that’s delivered to us each day.
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/how-refugees-remade-greeley-colorado/
How refugees remade a Colorado meatpacking town | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 25, 2025 - The scale of meatpacking in this country is staggering. Half a million people work in the industry, producing tens of billions of pounds of meat every year...
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https://thefern.org/2022/06/as-heat-rises-who-will-protect-farmworkers/
As heat rises, who will protect farmworkers? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/shrimp-replacement-theory/
Shrimp replacement theory | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Mar 2, 2025 - 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...
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/immigrants-on-the-line/
Trouble on the line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 8, 2025 - In late 2023, JBS, the Brazilian-owned conglomerate that is the world’s largest producer of meat, needed workers at its plant in Greeley, Colorado…
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https://thefern.org/podcasts/forked/
Forked – Food and Environment Reporting Network
FORKED takes on the politics and policy that are turning the American food system on its head. Every two weeks, hosts Theodore Ross (FERN editor-in-chief) and...
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https://thefern.org/special-series/solving-food-waste/
Solving Food Waste | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/10/time-to-bust-the-meat-trust/
Time to bust the meat trust | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Oct 23, 2024 - Americans are spending a greater portion of their income on food than they have in decades. In the past few months, the growing outrage over price hikes has…
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https://thefern.org/2023/01/trouble-at-sea/
Trouble at sea | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Feb 15, 2023 - It’s late July and I’m standing with Daniel Schindler at the mouth of Sam Creek, a small tributary of western Alaska’s Bristol Bay, home to the largest...
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https://thefern.org/2024/04/sludge-report/
Sludge report | Food and Environment Reporting Network
May 29, 2024 - Dostie Farm, an organic dairy in Fairfield, Maine, was thriving until one day in October 2020 when owner Egide Dostie Jr. got a call from Stonyfield…
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https://thefern.org/2023/12/tell-me-why-the-watermelon-grows/
Tell me why the watermelon grows | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 30, 2024 - The air conditioner was malfunctioning. When I bought the car used in January, the owner said she had just fixed it, but here I was on a steamy August day on…
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/acknowledging-the-work-offarmworkers-through-art/
Acknowledging the work of farmworkers through art | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Sep 5, 2025 - Narsiso Martinez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1977 and came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He received a master of fine arts degree in...
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https://thefern.org/2023/01/why-extreme-weather-means-less-food-for-california-farmworkers/
Extreme weather creates a food crisis for California farmworkers | Food and Environment Reporting...
Mar 15, 2023 - The Food and Environment Reporting Network · Why extreme weather is making it hard for California farmworkers to put food on their own tables On a brisk…
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https://thefern.org/special-series/trouble-on-the-line/
Trouble On The Line | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/06/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-big-time-food-waster/
A week in the life of a big-time food waster | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - I am an expert on wasting food, if only because I do it so much. For me, there’s a sense of profound shame in this profligacy, because I’m acting in ways...
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https://thefern.org/2017/04/united-states-ready-offshore-aquaculture/
Is the United States ready for offshore aquaculture? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Apr 15, 2019 - Harlon Pearce walks muck-booted past processors gutting wild drum and red snapper to showcase a half-full new 5,000-square-foot (500-square-meter) freezer he…
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https://thefern.org/2025/02/to-me-its-just-junk-food/
‘To me it’s junk food’ | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Feb 27, 2025 - Over the past several decades, the American diet has undergone extraordinary changes. Increasingly, Americans are relying on processed food products as...
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https://thefern.org/2024/03/the-toxic-grass-problem/
The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Update: Immigrant meatpacking workers are still under threat | Food and Environment Reporting...
Dec 2, 2025 - When we released this story, as a podcast and text feature, back in February, President Trump was threatening to rescind Temporary Protective Status (TPS)...
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https://thefern.org/2022/08/alaskas-herring-row/
Alaska’s herring row | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan 19, 2023 - On a drizzly March afternoon in Sitka, Alaska, K’asheechtlaa “Louise” Brady hurries down a wooden ramp to the dock at Fisherman’s Quay, her...
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https://thefern.org/2024/02/the-farm-bill-hall-of-shame/
The farm bill hall of shame | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - The farm bill is among the most important pieces of legislation that Congress is more or less obliged to pass. Yet to all but a handful of people whose job...
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https://thefern.org/the-dirt/
The Dirt: Great writing on food and farming | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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https://thefern.org/2024/04/the-whole-dam-truth/
The whole dam truth | Food and Environment Reporting Network
May 2, 2024 - In the annals of decarbonization, few tales of progress are as chipper as the one New York City has told about its newly minted partnership with the...
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https://thefern.org/2024/01/when-must-pass-meets-mega-partisan/
When must-pass meets mega-partisan | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - The farm bill was once an example of bipartisan bonhomie in Washington. A marriage of farm subsidies and nutrition assistance programs, the recurring...
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Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan 14, 2025 - South of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the valley of the Mississippi River fans out into a broad plain known as the Delta. The name is misleading: The region...
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https://thefern.org/2025/06/greeces-olive-oil-crisis-is-bad-enough-to-tempt-thieves/
Greece’s olive oil crisis is bad enough to tempt thieves | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jul 8, 2025 - Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata.
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https://thefern.org/2024/12/how-the-railroad-shaped-agriculture-and-civil-rights-in-california/
How the railroad shaped agriculture and civil rights in California | Food and Environment Reporting...
Oct 27, 2025 - Kids growing up in California learn about the transcontinental railroad in the fourth grade, and the mostly Chinese laborers who laid the track eastward from…
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Tom Colicchio: A chef’s journey | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - Three o’clock in the morning, I’d wake to the smell of peppers and onions frying, my grandfather in the kitchen. Then the sound of sizzling, him adding...
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https://thefern.org/2023/11/a-conversation-with-the-sioux-chef/
A conversation with The Sioux Chef | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - Chef Sean Sherman arrived at Owamni, which received the James Beard Foundation Award for the Best New Restaurant in the country in 2022, dressed in blue...
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Food and Power in the West | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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Want farmers to protect the environment? | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 5, 2024 - Like a reveler who chases each of many tequila shots with a seltzer, U.S. farm policy consists of comically clashing impulses likely to result in a nasty…
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SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment | SEJ
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The cafeteria as classroom | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jun 6, 2024 - In January 2019, students at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, took a hard look at how much food they were throwing away. It was Taco Day…
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https://thefern.org/2025/09/big-ag-is-threatening-new-mexicos-water-supply/
Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Nov 14, 2025 - Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. But for more than a hundred miles along the...
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The Problem With Ultraprocessed Foods | Food and Environment Reporting Network
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