A short chapter cut from my dissertation, Shopping for Wholeness: The Political-Economy of Whole Foods Market and the Commodification of Altruism Our meat and poultry is renowned for great taste and quality. We believe this has a lot to do with the care that goes into raising the animals and the true partnerships we have with […]
Monthly Archive for December, 2019
The Animality of Agriculture
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2019
Dear American Taxpayer
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2019
— PBS.TWIMG.COM via my uncle Bob’s Facebook As the representative body of a public, I’m pretty sure that the only means a government has to obtain funds is through its citizenry. No, I’m certain. The issue I have with the above statement is not that it is false but that it presents the government […]
Surprise, surprise… corporate tax breaks don’t yield sustained expenditures!
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2019
The obvious question is whether you can draw any line, any connection between the tax breaks they’re getting, ostensibly designed to encourage capital expenditures, and what they’re actually doing. And it’s just impossible to know. – New York Times, November 17, 2019 But isn’t this the point of capital? To accumulate more capital? Why […]
Food, Taste, and the (Re)Production of the American Class System
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2019
I present to you the paper that started it all… that is my academic fetishization of Whole Foods Market… my final paper from my second semester Cultural Studies seminar in 2010 of version of which I presented the following fall at k(NO)w tomorrow: Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference at George Mason University under the title “Nourishing […]
Beyond Meat?: The Uncanny Valley of Processed Plant-Based Foods
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2019
A Study of the Perceptions of and Imperatives Behind Analogues and Substitutes an abridged version of this paper was presented at the Roger Smith Conference on Food 2014– a presentation which is referenced here. Once seen as the utopian ambition of counter-cuisine practitioners, the desire to produce more environmentally and nutritionally sound proteins that have […]
Don’t Call it a Come Back!
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2019
Because I was here all along, thanks for asking… While I’m working on some new shiitake, I’m gonna throw some gems from my past up here. xoxo