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John Sanbonmatsu Thinks You’re Lying to Yourself About Food
John sanbonmatsu is a professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. The book is a response to Michael Pollan’s 2006 bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and as the title suggests, Sanbonmatsu thinks writers like Pollan are dead wrong about the ethics of food. He maintains that killing and eating animals is entirely indefensible, no matter how “humane” the process supposedly is. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to explain why.
Farmworkers Are Frequently Exploited. But Few Farms Participate in a Program That Experts Say Could Prevent Abuse.
by Max Blau for ProPublica When Jon Esformes was in his 20s, farmworkers staged protests outside one of his family’s tomato farms, in California’s Central Valley, calling out the fact they were paid less than 50 cents for each bucket of produce they picked. The summer of 1989 was particularly memorable: The demonstrations were tense — […]
Bret Weinstein Humiliates Himself With Rob Reiner Take
Oil plunges to four-year low on Ukraine peace talks
OPEC+ members have ramped up production this year, spurring fears of a “super glut.”
The Israeli army is creating a ‘new security reality’ in the northern West Bank to advance colonization
By Shatha Hanaysha for Mondoweiss On December 3, Israeli forces raided a home in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, tearing down a map of Palestine hanging on the wall and confiscating another. The homeowners, a woman and her 11-year-old daughter, were detained for several hours and subjected to on-site field interrogations as Israeli troops vandalised […]
Tiffany lamp coveted by Steve Jobs sells for $4.4 million
Crafted by the studio's stained-glass maestro, the "Magnolia" floor lamp broke Tiffany's auction record.
Trump and his party enter a winter of discontent
Republicans are cringing at the president’s digressions as they divide further on potential economic fixes.