agricultural history

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2023
  

  Can Capitalism Exist Without Excess?

  by Trevor Jackson

  The pandemic supply chain disruptions have focused attention on shortages, but the problem of gluts—of food being destroyed when it can't be profitably sold–reflects a deeper problem with global capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  4/17/2023
  

  Giving Life to Midwestern Fields and Killing the Great Lakes

  Journalist Dan Egan, a longtime follower of the environmental concerns of the Great Lakes region, has a new book examining the role of phosphorous-containing fertilizers in fueling agricultural prosperity and threatening the largest supply of fresh water. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/5/2023
  

  That Sad Viral Story of a Goat Shows Ethical Void of the Meat Industry

  by Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz

  Cedar the goat has a name. Millions of other farm animals don't, and industry spends a lot of money to keep it that way, while obscuring the ideological work that goes into convincing Americans that animals are only meat. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/27/2023
  

  Phosphorus Giveth (Life) and Phosphorus Taketh Away

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

  The industrial age miracle of phosphorus fertilizer production revolutionized agricultual yields. Today, humanity faces a twin crisis of the mineral's scarcity and the toxicity of the algae that it feeds with farm runoff. 

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• SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
  9/29/2022
  

  Mireya Loza's History of Farm Work Will Shape Equity in Agriculture Industry

  “We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/6/2022
  

  Don’t Make Meat Cheaper. Make It Much More Expensive

  by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The Biden administration hopes to score political points by making the meat industry more competitive and lowering prices. This is ignoring the horrible costs of cheap meat. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg Equality
  3/11/2021
  

  My Family’s Long-Gone Texas Land Shows How Black Wealth Is Won and Lost

  by Jacqueline Simmons

  A host of the Pay Check podcast introduces a new season that will examine her family's history of landholding in Texas as a lens on the historical roots of the black-white wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/29/2020
  

  The Government Must Pay People to Stay Home

  by Gabriel N. Rosenberg

  The earliest effective government responses to epidemic illness in the United States came not in the context of human health, but in the context of livestock.