Tag: Food and Agriculture

Articles tagged with food-and-agriculture

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David McDermott Hughes

A Jobless Utopia?

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

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Colin Dayan

White Leghorns

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

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Sarah Hill

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

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

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Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Pigs

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

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Jedediah Britton-Purdy

The New Nature

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

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Anne Fausto-Sterling

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

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Susanna Bohme

People v. Dole

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

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Dave Byrne

Ground Down to Molasses

The Making of an American Folk Song

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Pamela Ronald

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.

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Vivian Gornick

Empire’s Wasteland

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

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