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As seen in: The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN), The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, National Post, The Denver Post, Grist, KRCC-FM (Colorado Springs, CO), WLRN-FM (Miami, FL), EatingWell, KPBS-TV (San Diego, CA) and
Editor-in-Chief, @FERNNews. Author: In Search of the Perfect Loaf, Winner IACP Literary Writing Award, also Organic Inc. Vincit Veritas.
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Back Forty: ‘Vote with your fork’ was never going to be enough

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Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews, and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy news site. You can subscribe to the newsletter below. By Samuel Fromartz It’s surprising to realize that Food Inc., a hit documentary about the many problems with our industrial food system, came out 15 years ago.
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Editor’s Desk: What happens when a species collapses

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By Samuel Fromartz Verified
| The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) Verified
By Samuel Fromartz In our latest story, Alaskan writer Julia O’Malley takes us to St. Paul Island, 600 miles west of Anchorage in the Bering Sea, to explore what happened when billions of crabs vanished. The crab industry had supported the island economy, but with climate change the crustacean suffered a historic collapse. “I was traveling there to find out what the villagers might do next,” O’Malley says in the story, produced in collaboration with Grist.
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A remote Alaskan town confronts historic collapse of crab fishery

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By Samuel Fromartz Verified
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Some 800 miles west of Anchorage, in the Bering sea, sits the island of St. Paul, the source of snow crab eaten in the rest of the United States and globally. “Over the last few years, 10 billion snow crabs have unexpectedly vanished from the Bering Sea,” writes Julia O’Malley in FERN’s latest story, produced… » Read More FERN’s Ag Insider gives you the reporting you need every day to navigate the difficult terrain of food and agriculture policy.
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