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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Food-Alienation Nation

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June 26, 2011
Alienation

Over the past several decades Americans have become increasingly alienated from their own nourishment. Ideally, food should help keep us pleasantly healthy and alive, and although taste is important, it should not render nutritional value an irrelevancy to us. Our current system, however, produces many foods whose ingredients are merely tolerated by or toxic...
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Upton Sinclair: The Conscience of a Nation

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June 26, 2011
Upton Sinclair

When the extremes of capitalism bring financial hardships or economic depression, the mainstream often takes note of alternative notions about society and economics. There is a rich tradition of Socialist literature imbued with metaphor and theory that can then spill into the mainstream; but more commonly, such literature is confined to the periphery of...
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