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How to Boycott Big Food (2013)

How to Boycott Big Food (2013)

FROM 2013: As with every such transition, the move from an industrial food diet to a homegrown, organic one is likely to occur in gradual stages. As people improve their gardening skills and devote more of their time and attention to sourcing healthy, natural foods from local growers and producers, they can slowly but surely eliminate the processed foods from their diets.

Interview 1886 – Scamdemic 2: Bird Flu Boogaloo (NWNW 558)

Interview 1886 – Scamdemic 2: Bird Flu Boogaloo (NWNW 558)

This week on the New World Next Week: The WHO is preparing to drop Scamdemic 2 with the bird flu bogeyman; Japan’s birthrate falls to yet another record low while the government plays dating app on the Titanic; and Adobe shoots itself in the foot with a disastrous privacy-destroying terms of service update.

Episode 460 – The Future of Food

Episode 460 – The Future of Food

New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself…

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We’re All Sri Lankan Farmers Now

Last week I wrote about how "We're All Dutch Farmers Now." As you'll recall from that editorial, there is a battle taking place right now between farmers in the Netherlands and the technocrats in their government who are seeking to put them out of work and close up...

The Media Matrix

Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn't always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? This is the story of The Media...

We’re All Dutch Farmers Now

For weeks now, farmers in the Netherlands have been engaging in fierce protests over their government's plan to halve the country's nitrogen and ammonia pollution by 2030. It is estimated that this plan—which will mandate emissions cuts of 95% in some provinces—will...

Your Summer Reading List

As you probably heard me announce at the end of last week's New World Next Week, I'm going to be taking a couple of weeks off to get caught up on some of the website administration, get a head start on some of the projects I'm working on for the latter half of the...

G7 Tax Deal: From Global Tax to Global Government

Imagine if you spent months planning an elaborate 50th birthday party for yourself—hiring performers, decorating your place and inviting everyone you know—and when the big day finally arrived . . . no one bothered to show up. Embarrassing, right? Well, that's...

June Open Thread

It's the first weekend in June, so it's time for this month's open thread. What's on your mind? Do you have a theory about the big nothingburger of the Pentagon's non-report about UFOs? Are your skimming through the Fauci emails that reveal (amongst other things) that...

Why I Write

In 1946, Eric Arthur Blair (better known by his pen name, George Orwell) penned an essay entitled "Why I Write." Although just 43 years old when the essay was published in the pages of the short-lived literary journal Gangrel, Orwell—who had already gained...

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