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The Rise of “Ugly” Produce

When you walk into the grocery store and are faced by shelves of apples, which one do you choose? Many consumers would choose a beautiful looking apple over a blemished one, and chances are, there aren’t many apples on those shelves that aren’t pretty close to an image of perfection.
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Industrial Agriculture: An Intro

In many ways, the focus of this blog is industrial agriculture—the problems it causes, the food and labor systems that are built around it, and its alternatives. I’ll do more detailed posts on many of the things in this one, but for now, here’s a summary of some of the issues with industrial agriculture.
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Eating Ecology

This blog is dedicated to all things food systems related. Anything I happen to find interesting from farming practices and ecology, to farm workers’ rights, food sovereignty, and global agricultural policy, to cool food-related innovations is fair game.