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What is agricultural ethics and why does it matter?
Agricultural ethics is a specific discipline for inquiry into the myriad normative issues that interpenetrate every aspect of agricultural production and food systems. As understood in the specific sense developed here, agricultural ethics matters because some unique features in the institutionalization of agricultural science and education have created gaps in the thought processes that support policy and the innovation process for agricultural technologies. Continue reading
Posted in New Books
Tagged agriculture, Environmental Studies, ethics, Food Studies, philosophy, technology
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A Countess Rural Brewer
The Countess Brewer brought pneumatic malting technology to rural Ukraine. Continue reading
Posted in Food Studies
Tagged brewing, factory, history, social class, technology, Ukraine
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Crappy History
“[T]he modern nation-state is founded on s*&t, which seems only appropriate given the damage that nationalism has done to people and planet.” Continue reading
All Cooped Up: Gender and Chicken Industry after the Second World War
After the Second World War, the development of agribusiness exploded with unprecedented ferocity. Out of all of the changes that agribusinesses attempted to impress upon farming communities, a reorientation of gender roles may be the most profound. Continue reading
Posted in Food Studies
Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, farm labor, history, poultry, technology
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Something Old, Something New: Merging Historical Research with Modern Concepts of Sharing
Little did I know that one simple action would open me up to a whole slew of exciting opportunities, both big and small. Continue reading
How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Historical Research
My current research project has been transformed by digital technologies. Continue reading