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 ...

By Theodore Ross The latest installment in FERN’s special series, “MAHA and the Midterms,” is by Jill Filipovic, and it poses ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

The initial loading of breakfast cereals with sugar has been attributed to a single person: Jim Rex, a heating-equipment ...

By Brent Cunningham 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 ...

Ben Seal is a freelance journalist based in South Philadelphia who writes about the intersection of food and agriculture, the ...

Wendell Berry, who died August 31, 2026, at the age of 92, was a contributor and adviser to Orion from its inception in 1982. As part of a tribute to Berry, the magazine republished his 2002 piece ...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food-label-reading Make America Healthy Again voters—who’ve been ...

If you wanted to create better blackberries, you could try to breed a variety without the seeds that get stuck in your teeth. Or one without the thorns that make the berries hard to pick. Or you could ...