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As seen in: The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN), Post Outlook, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, The Weather Channel, Vox, Chron, The Nation, CSIRO Publishing, Pacific Standard and
Executive Editor, Food & Environment Reporting Network @FERNNews; recovering media critic @CJR.
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FERN’s Friday Feed: Can the Chicken Nugget Grow Up?

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By Brent Cunningham Verified
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“Farmers’ markets are a haven for whole, unprocessed foods. … So you can imagine my surprise when, during a recent tour of my local Greenmarket in Manhattan … I passed a pastured meat purveyor with an unusual item on its burlap-clad counter: a bag of frozen chicken nuggets,” writes Cathy Erway. “Having been raised on fast food, [Stephanie] Maynard vowed to do things differently with her children and established Ox Hollow Farm with her husband, Mark, in 1997.
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FERN’s Friday Feed: The Long Arc Of the ‘Pie Plant’

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“A lot of what we know about plants comes from oral histories and traditions that were (much) later translated to the page. It is this way with traditional Chinese medicine. Lessons that remain important were passed down thousands of years before they were written. The oldest surviving book in this tradition is the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, or ‘Divine Farmer’s Classic of Materia Medica,’ compiled around 100 CE and based on Chinese knowledge that went back at least 2,500 years earlier.
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FERN’s Friday Feed: The Irony of ‘Ancestral’ Pet Food

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“As we laughed over ideas for more appropriate flavours – plump little wrens stuffed into pouches, mouse pâté, sparrow soup – I realised that I had never really questioned my choice of ‘ancestral’ food for Bear. Nor had I thought about the rise of a host of other brands … all similarly marketed on the basis of being ‘real’ food and linked to pets’ alleged wildness and animal natures.
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