Topic on the Beat: The Food System

Top Food Stories From SEJournal

Updated February 2025

TipSheets

• Could Beef Be the Route to a Bird Flu Pandemic?
• Farmers Markets Offer Many Local Environmental Stories
• Want Pesticides With That Kale?
• Follow Fish Advisories To Catch Local Stories

Toolboxes

• ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact
• Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time
• Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories
• Consumption Advisories Offer Fistful of Fish Tales

Freelance Files

• Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground

Features

• Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture
• Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat
• Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat
• Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories
• U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems

Inside Story Q&A

• High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation

EJ Academy

• Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation

FEJ StoryLog

• Eating (and Reporting) My Way Through the Foods of the Rainforest

BookShelf

• The Bounty of the Gift Economy
• How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos
• “Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, With a Guide to Plants and Recipes”
• “Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought”

 

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