The first time Jesse Gabriel was asked to consider a food safety bill, in 2023, he was wary—to say the least. Banning food dyes? It sounded a little “California woo-woo.” Gabriel, a third-term ...

Marina Arbetman stands in the middle of a raspberry field with a look of disbelief. Though she knew what to expect, to actually see it is, by turns, baffling, outrageous, and saddening. Her expression ...

This this past February, as Super Bowl viewers chowed down on Buffalo wings and loaded nachos, they found themselves unexpectedly admonished. On their TV screens, in a black-and-white close-up, was ...

Over the years, we’ve produced quite a few stories about salmon in Alaska. Mostly it’s been a story of loss: fewer wild fish, Native communities struggling, the fish themselves shrinking in size. In ...

“The initial loading of breakfast cereals with sugar has been attributed to a single person: Jim Rex, a heating-equipment salesman who lived in Pennsylvania in the early 20th century. As the story ...

“Much attention has been paid to the MAHA moms, and rightly so. Women have powered the movement, evangelizing for whole foods and raw milk on Instagram, successfully pressuring Donald Trump to appoint ...

Patagonia’s only native bumblebee, Bombus dahlbomii, is a giant. Known as the “flying mouse,” its queen is “as long as a AA battery and chubbier than a caterpillar,” as reporter Jude Isabella ...

The latest installment in FERN’s special series, “MAHA and the Midterms,” is by Jill Filipovic, and it poses a pretty basic question: Where did all the MAHA Moms go? Short answer: not into leadership ...

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, ...

It’s no secret that RFK Jr. has not delivered for his MAHA constituents. On everything from glyphosate to ultra-processed foods, Kennedy has either yielded to Trump’s agenda and corporate lobbying, ...