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How the Term ‘Anti-Science’ Distorts America’s Relationship With Technology

Placed in historical perspective, the popular opposition to things like GMOs and vaccines, much like 19th-century opposition to fertilizers and insecticides, reflects less an overt rejection of science than a distrust of experts who peddle it.

James McWilliams

Environment

The Case Against the Woman Who Dared to Give Water to Someone Else’s Pigs

Is it possible for us to provide a bit of humane treatment to livestock? They may have to prove they can fly first.

James McWilliams

Social Justice

How Horse Meat Might Get Into the U.S. Food System

The hidden pipeline for America’s mystery meat may start at home.

James McWilliams

Environment

Do We Need a ‘Mustang-Safe’ Label for Beef?

The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might.

James McWilliams

Environment

Is the Chipotle Narrative Coming to an End?

What the company can learn from its recent E. coli outbreak.

James McWilliams

Environment

Do We Really Vote With Our Forks?

On causal impotence and whether consumer choice even matters when it comes to our global food system.

James McWilliams

Environment

Monkey Business

How coconuts can help us re-think citizenship.

James McWilliams

Environment

Want to Reduce Food Waste? Hug Your Local Freegan

No group has better mapped and internalized the geography of waste—or been bolder about wading into the cesspools where trash accumulates.

James McWilliams

Environment

Is There Such a Thing as Food Choice?

New data on vegetable consumption raises a question we too easily overlook.

James McWilliams

Environment

What Cheating Emissions Standards Tells Us About Ourselves

To understand the outrage over the Volkswagen scandal and recall, consider the meat industry.

James McWilliams