Top Food Stories From SEJournal

Updated November 2025

TipSheets

• Chronic Wasting Disease May Be Stalking Deer Hunters [2]
• The Polar Vortex Portends … the Planting of Seeds? [3]
• Could Beef Be the Route to a Bird Flu Pandemic? [4]
• Farmers Markets Offer Many Local Environmental Stories [5]
• Want Pesticides With That Kale? [6]
• Follow Fish Advisories To Catch Local Stories [7]

Toolboxes

• Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [8]
• ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact [9]
• Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time [10]
• Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories [11]
• Consumption Advisories Offer Fistful of Fish Tales [12]

Freelance Files

• Covering Food Systems — The Next Climate Action Battleground [13]

Features

• Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [14]
• Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [15]
• Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [16]
• Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories [17]
• U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [18]

Inside Story Q&A

• High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [19]

EJ Academy

• Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation [20]

FEJ StoryLog

• Eating (and Reporting) My Way Through the Foods of the Rainforest [21]

BookShelf

• The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [22]
• The Bounty of the Gift Economy [23]
• How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos [24]
• “Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, With a Guide to Plants and Recipes” [25]
• “Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought” [26]

 

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