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Essays

Hunger in the Heart of Empire: Pellagra in the United States
Within many Americans' lifetimes, the United States saw a 40-year epidemic of malnutrition that killed a hundreds thousand of its own citizens. Most of us have forgotten pellagra. But American farmers and their lobbyists remember- and they remember that hunger is good business.
THE ELEPHANT
SEP 2021

Eating ugly food won't save the world
This article explores how consumers' understanding of food waste is shaped by advertising- not reality.
WASHINGTON POST
MAR 2019

Are Trump’s Immigration Policies Literally Making Us Sick?
Upton Sinclair got it right a century ago: we can't have a food system that abuses workers and good food. This article explores links between farm workers' and consumers' interests today, in the form of immigration crackdowns and repeated outbreaks in labor-intensive lettuce crops.
SLATE
DEC 2018

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