By Brent Cunningham 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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Jones, the 65-year-old Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stands at the edge of a pond on a 72-acre farm in eastern Iowa. “What you see here is how fertile Iowa is,” he says, ...

Tom Colicchio climbed the gray staircase from the basement kitchen and made his way toward New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s table. Colicchio is compact and lean, and he moves with purpose. You ...