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Our sustenance now comes from misery.
Jonathan Safran Foer • Eating Animals
Tenants who fell behind either had to accept unpleasant, degrading, and sometimes dangerous housing conditions or be evicted. But from a business point of view, this arrangement could be lucrative. The four-family property that included Doreen’s and Lamar’s apartments was Sherrena’s most profitable. Her second-most profitable property was Arleen’s
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In his movie Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock ate three fast food meals a day for one month.
Mark Hyman • The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy cows
... See moreMichael Pollan • Omnivore's Dilemma
Jeremy Diamond • Feeding The Rebels
In 2014, according to a former DOE official, a federal contractor in Los Alamos, having been told to pack the barrels with “inorganic kitty litter,” had scribbled down “an organic kitty litter.” The barrel with organic kitty litter in it had burst and spread waste inside the cavern. The site was closed for three years, significantly backing up
... See moreMichael Lewis • The Fifth Risk
This “new contract,” alongside other missing forms of government protection, closes the margin for refusal and leads to a life lived in economic fear.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
This gluttonous enterprise of ugliness, waste, and fraud thrives in the disastrous breach it has helped to make between our bodies and our souls.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Respect for your privacy isn’t a rebate you get for every $1,000 you spend on an iPhone. Companies abuse you if they can get away with it. That’s the crux of enshittification. Apple didn’t treat its customers well because it loved them. It treated them well to lure them into its walled garden, which was then revealed to be a prison.