Black to the Land
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, author Brea Baker teases out the 20th century’s great dispossession of Black farmers, and reports on a budding revival of African-American agrarianism.
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The Land Owns Us
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies instead on indigenous regenerative intelligence.
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Monopoly Money: On the Iowa Hog Barons Behind Your Bacon
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, author Austin Frerick discusses the barons who dominate US food production, including an Iowa farm couple who spun enormous, manure-spewing hog operations into a vast fortune.
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Confused by Nutrition Research? Blame Big Food
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, Marion Nestle reveals the food industry's recipe for cooking up academic nutrition research that serves its interests—not yours.
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Is Animal Agriculture Contributing to Bird Flu Spread?
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, two leading experts, Meghan Davis and Erin Sorrell, take us from farming communities to policy circles to explain how bird flu spreads, who is at risk, and what we can do to slow this outbreak.
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What Trump II Means for Our Food
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, three experts help us sort through the new administration's agenda and try to figure out what it all might mean for food policy. , program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute; and primary writer of , a newsletter covering corporate consolidation of agriculture markets. , policy director at National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which also produces a , this one on Beltway policy developments. , professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science, where he teaches...
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A People’s Scientist Meets a Tiny Fish
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, World Food Prize winner Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted explains how biodiversity, local resources, and saying “no” to pricy pesticides helped cut childhood hunger in Bangladesh
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The Weird, Beautiful Oyster
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, Dave Love explains oyster farming, why it’s impossible to industrialize it, and how oysters offer benefits ranging from amino acids to storm surge buffers.
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Abundant Salmon, Troubled Waters
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, veteran journalists Douglas Frantz and Catharine Collins expose what lies beneath those rosy salmon filets that grace our supermarket seafood cases.
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A Livable Future for Fisheries
Unconfined
In this episode of Unconfined, Philip Loring discusses practical ways for fishers, grocers, and consumers to contribute to the repair and restoration of global fisheries.
info_outlineUpton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle exposed inhumane working conditions in the meatpacking industry, as well as disgusting details about the meat itself. Decades later, conditions and wages improved for meatpackers. Meatpacking became a proper middle-class job, alongside jobs in the automotive industry. But during the 1980s—the Reagan Era—union-busting reversed the trend. Workers in the meat industry, many of whom were unempowered immigrants, once again faced safety concerns and falling wages. They were bumped out of the middle class and back into The Jungle. In this Unconfined three-part series, CLF staffers Tom Philpott and Christine Grillo interview activists and journalists who are investigating the lack of protections for workers and doing something about it.