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The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
They are fighting in a global war over the future of agriculture. Modi is chocking the debate.
The meat business has become a vast, fragile beast teetering on the brink of ecological and financial ruin.
Biodiversity should be maintained by using it, not by storing it under ice.
A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.
On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.
Remembering one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.
Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.
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It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?
Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?
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Genetically modified foods are safe for humans and pose no special environmental risk. Yet there are serious policy questions to consider.
While some U.S. politicians won’t even admit climate change exists, Central American political leaders increasingly find the phenomenon impossible to ignore.
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That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.
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