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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 to “dominate the ...

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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