YouTube
by Reveal
From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn’t always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did 40 years ago. This short stop-motion animation explains how clever advertising tactics and certain pesticides helped make the juicy red fruit cheaply and widely available. There are, however, hidden costs to using these chemicals. Based on an investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Regional Emmy Winner 2015
For more information on this story, visit cironline.org/strawberries.
Director, Producer, Animator
Ariane Wu
Reporters
Kendall Taggart
Bernice Yeung
Andrew Donohue
Illustrator and After Effects Artist
Arthur Jones
Music Composer
Jason Kick
Sound Mixer
Christopher Galipo