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Section 2: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “10 Things You Need to Know about the Global Food System,” Evan Fraser and Elizabeth Fraser, Guardian News & Media Ltd., 2019
    • “Eat Less Meat: UN Climate-Change Report Calls for Change to Human Diet,” Quirin Schiermeier, Springer Nature Limited, 2019
    • “History and Overview of the Green Revolution: How Agricultural Practices Changed in the 20th Century,” Amanda Briney, ThoughtCo., 2020
    • “Impossible Foods, Impossible Claims,” Anna Lappé, Medium, 2019
    • “Indoor Urban Farms Called Wasteful, ‘Pie in the Sky’,” Stacey Shackford, Cornell Chronicle, 2014
    • “Why Industrial Farms Are Good for the Environment,” Jayson Lusk, The New York Times Company, 2016
  • Digital Access
    • “Corn as an Industrial Feedstock,” National Corn Growers Association, National Corn Growers Association, May 2020
    • “Industrial Corn Farming Is Ruining Our Health and Polluting Our Watersheds,” Donald Scavia, The Conversation, April 6, 2015
    • “Top Five Reasons Why Eating Corn Doesn’t Make Any Sense,” Sapiens Paleo Kitchen, Sapiens Paleo Kitchen, 2019