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FERN brings audiences, outlets, and information together with powerful storytelling and information.
When you support us, we want to be able to give something back in return. Donate at least $50 or $5/month and you can receive The Dirt, an annual print collection of our favorite stories. It’s a great way to stay on top of FERN’s essential work on food and agriculture.
“‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis,” by Sean Cooper, published in partnership with Rolling Stone. FERN’s first piece with Rolling Stone is an investigation into the role Amazon’s data centers play in exacerbating the nitrate pollution of the drinking water—by nitrates used to fertilize industrial ag operations—in an eastern Oregon community, and the local political corruption at the heart of it all.
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“‘Customers are being duped’: How murky grocery sales tactics are squeezing some Kroger shoppers,” by Ted Genoways, Michael Hudson, Derek Kravitz, and Theodore Ross. Published in partnership with The Guardian and Consumer Reports. This ambitious collaborative investigation sent “secret shoppers” into Kroger stores and those of its subsidiaries around the country to gather evidence of price gouging. That field reporting was supplemented with court documents, internal corporate documents, and interviews with union workers at Kroger stores.
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FERN’s new podcast “Forked: Food Politics in the MAHA Age” 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 Helena Bottemiller Evich (founder and editor of the newsletter Food Fix) dive into the complex issues that are transforming agriculture and nutrition. FORKED makes sense of this moment of radical change for everyone who cares about what they eat and where their food comes from..
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