James E. McWilliams
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World’s End
In 1994 an 11-year-old boy rode his bike through a Pennsylvania field that had just been covered in sewer sludge. Three days later he [...] Full Story -
Big River
In the course of writing a book recently on the history of insecticides, I found myself continually frustrated by the ease with which so [...] Full Story -
Doomed If We Do, or Doomed If We Don’t?
Globalization cuts both ways. On the one hand, it’s a capitalistic assault on indigenous knowledge, a conspiracy orchestrated by neoliberal nuts who want to [...] Full Story -
More Than One Man Can Chew
Big claims. Not too much support. Mostly unconvincing. That’s my nutshell response to Michael Pollan’s most recent answer to “the supposedly incredibly complicated and [...] Full Story -
Moveable Feast
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and [...] Full Story
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They Speak for the Trees
Paradoxically, our most insidious environmental problems are often ones that do not immediately impact our daily lives. Refineries spew pollution into the air, and [...] Full Story -
They Speak for the Trees
Paradoxically, our most insidious environmental problems are often ones that do not immediately impact our daily lives. Refineries spew pollution into the air, [...] Full Story -
Food Fight
“When it comes to food,” writes Robert Paarlberg, “everyone is interested.” This understatement captures the restraint of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. [...] Full Story -
It Is the Heat
About two million years ago our ape-ish ancestors experienced a number of rapid physical changes: rib cages shrank, pelvises narrowed, teeth became smaller, stomachs [...] Full Story -
Review
Critical gestures against industrial food are all the rage these days. Michelle Obama planted a White House garden. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack jackhammered a [...] Full Story
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