Strib invests in ag reporting
By Rachel Hutton in Foodie News
Monday, Dec. 1 2008 @ 6:00AM
I was pleased to pick up yesterday's Star Tribune and find the front page devoted to a new special report called Our Hungry Planet, which attempts to track rising food costs along the links of the interdependent global food chain.
In the first installment, Matt McKinney traces palm oil production from
Cargill's Paupua New Guinea plantations to General Mills' breakfast
bars. He also traveled to Shanghai to see how Minnesota's major
food producers are rushing to get their meat, dairy, and grains to feed
China's growing appetite for such products, as wealth increases and
diets change.
This is the kind of complex, resource-intensive, big-picture sort of reporting that's becoming more scarce as newspapers continue to face budget crunches, so I'm glad to see the Star Tribune stepping up to the challenge and am eager to see the subsequent reports.
This is the kind of complex, resource-intensive, big-picture sort of reporting that's becoming more scarce as newspapers continue to face budget crunches, so I'm glad to see the Star Tribune stepping up to the challenge and am eager to see the subsequent reports.
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