The Flies That Bind
...excremental world. Consider this from Nathaniel Cobb, in the Yearbook of the US Department of Agriculture, 1914: If all matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away our...
Sunday Reading
...the Present Inventing Ethnicity; Imagining Agriculture: The "Tribes" of Ham and the "Primitive" Crops of Africa Turkish Knockoff Toothpaste, Legal Imperialism, and Racist Product Marketing in 1920s America Iraqi Maqam:...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...from an economy based in subsistence agriculture, to a cash-crop export economy dominated by foreign businesses. Firestone scored 1 million acres for 99 years at 6 cents an acre. The...
Bloodless Coop
...shift in meat production took place during the postwar “green revolution,” in which the emergence of agro-industrial tech corporations like Monsanto and Dow scaled agriculture to unprecedented scope, expanding profitability...
The Ahmeds in America, Part Three
...structures to democratic processes. Witness the devastation of American agriculture and health that has resulted from monocultures, factory farms, and corn-syrupped foods, and witness the judicial sanctioning of corporate corruption...
Redefining the Right Wing
...empire that was contiguous territorially and based on slave labor and agriculture. Your question about Burke and the prerevolutionary European monarchical cosmopolitanism is excellent. Intuitively, it strikes me as right,...
Hanford Idyll
...(and to protect Hanford from outside interference) is now itself protected from development and agriculture, part of an edenic landscape imagined into the future. The Reach is presented as an...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...has to prepare meals for the family? Home improvement often begins with kitchen improvement." --The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Extension Service's Program Aid, Issue 953 (1971) Pierce’s concern for the...
Foodland
...I might otherwise miss. It relates to stories of domestication in agriculture, bioarchaeology, culture, technology, and almost anything else. There’s not a lot of stuff you can’t address through the...
Sunday Reading
...and an ancient spade with a bent blade. The Agriculture Department acknowledges racial and gender discrimination against farmers. The thrust of his argument is that violence in colonial Kenya was...
Defending Rojava
...autonomy was declared in the region production has shifted to agriculture, animal husbandry, and small-scaled industry organized by the principle of social economy: “We will base this mode of production...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...to do so is to recognize their environmental importance for insect control, agriculture, and even beauty. Alongside over 100 illustrations by ornithologist Louis Agassiz Fuertes is a prose-style narrative by...
The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
...of years, this thing that’s been with us before capitalism, before agriculture, before patriarchy. This thing was there at the beginning: to make, to regard what is made. White Aesthetics:...
Seeing Red
...of Agriculture pushing the FDA to label ketchup and relish as vegetables in order to justify cutting funds for school lunches. Or think about our Congress’ recent passing of an...
Noshing with Nomads
...believed, ate lots of horse meat and little besides. “Agriculture has been and remains a ‘catastrophe’ at all levels,” writes John Zerzan "We can either passively continue on the road...
Bees Are Dying
...Or, as the United States of Agriculture put it in what may as well be a deliberate effort to make people even more confused: “Most research has pointed to a...