How to change your life

I love this longish read from philosopher and climate organizer Rupert Read on Aeon today. In answer to the slightly click-bait-y subtitle…

2 days ago

Stop fixating on the poop

It’s good to hear more talk about the fact that we can’t solve problems caused by scale by trying to…

6 days ago

Eating those externalities

Food in America is too cheap. It’s really hard to get people to grasp that, even when they sort-of already…

1 month ago

How to make money selling food

Here’s one of my biggest lessons from the past several years of helping to keep a small grocery store afloat:…

1 month ago

Grow your own reading

So I was going to post something keying off this morning’s Guardian story about the Russians threatening to dump cheap…

1 month ago

Mmm, financialized food

You don’t get cheap meat without cheap feed. And you don’t get cheap feed without cheap grain. That’s the basic…

1 month ago

Shrinkflation, meet assize

Chapter 4 of Food Margins has a whole chunk about the medieval Assize of Bread and Ale, and about how I…

2 months ago

Oh please. Read some history.

Honestly, I gnash my teeth a lot when reading food journalism (or rather, “storytelling” as it now tends to be…

2 months ago

COOL OFF

No, I’m not yelling. Just really interested and heartened to see so many farmers and ranchers going up against Big…

2 months ago