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Food and agriculture

Science & Nature

The Seed Vault Flooding Is Only the Start of Our Problems

Biodiversity should be maintained by using it, not by storing it under ice.

Jack Heinemann

Class & Inequality

A Jobless Utopia?

A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.

David McDermott Hughes

Literature & Culture, Politics

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Education & Opportunity

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

A tribute to one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

Sarah Hill

Literature & Culture, Politics

Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Forum

The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

Jedediah Purdy

Science & Nature

GMOs Are Safe—So Let's Label Them

Genetically engineered foods are safe, but there are still good reasons to label them.

Simon Waxman

Science & Nature

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Literature & Culture, Race

Family Farms vs. Americanism

Below the surface–and sometimes above it–a lot of today’s debates around immigration reform are about cultural assimilation.

Claude S. Fischer

Global Justice, Science & Nature

People v. Dole

Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?

Susanna Bohme

Literature & Culture, Science & Nature

Ground Down to Molasses

The Making of an American Folk Song

Dave Byrne

Forum

The Truth About GMOs

Genetically modified foods are safe for humans and pose no special environmental risk. Yet there are serious policy questions to consider.

Pamela Ronald

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