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Today we’re releasing a podcast and a documentary short as the final two pieces of Food and Power in the West, our special issue with High Country News. FERN Editor-in-Chief Theodore Ross interviews three writers about the forces that shape and control our food system: Ted Genoways on the exploitation of refugees at a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado; Jeremy Miller on how large pecan growers are strangling a declining Rio Grande in New Mexico; and Paisley Rekdal on the history of the oppression of Chinese immigrants in the United States, and their resistance, through the lens of food. Be sure to check them out on our YouTube channel @FERNnews, and on REAP/SOW, our platform for all FERN audio.
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