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Essays

The solution to the global food crisis isn't more food.

There's plenty to go around, but it's going to the wrong places.

FOREIGN POLICY
OCT 2022​

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Panicky Markets Are the Greatest Danger to Global Food Supply

Hunger rarely comes from lack of food. It usually comes from poor logistics & speculation that put food- of which there is plenty- out of the poor's reach. It happened in 2008, and it's happening again.

FOREIGN POLICY
APR 2022​

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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

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America Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That’s Unfortunate.

Hiding underneath the family farm romance, very real questions of wealth, trauma, deep rural class divides, and who gets to farm in America go unanswered.

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
JUN 2019

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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

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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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