Maintenance Phase

Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma"

How a liberal journalist entrenched a libertarian fantasy. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww">Sarah Taber</a> for helping us with the research for this episode! Support us:<a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a><a href="https://paypal.me/maintenancephase">Donate on PayPal</a><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a>Links!<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520266254/weighing-in">Julie Guthman&amp;aposs "Weighing In" </a><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520286313/cuisine-and-empire">Rachel Laudan&amp;aposs "Cooking and Empire"</a><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/175174415X14101814953729">Heidi Zimmerman&amp;aposs "Caring for the Middle Class Soul"</a><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/11/joel-salatin-chris-newman-farming-rotational-grazing-agriculture/">Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth</a><a href="https://medium.com/@sylvanaqua">Chris Newman’s Blog</a><a href="https://sylvanaqua.medium.com/everything-i-want-to-do-is-racist-3ff6a6bb5e01">Everything I Want to Do Is Racist: How America’s favorite farmer lost his way.</a><a href="https://medium.com/sylvanaquafarms/clean-food-if-you-want-to-save-the-world-get-over-yourself-8ae9e01cc7ea">Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.</a><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170989/">The USA lags behind other agricultural nations in banning harmful pesticides</a><a href="https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/33261761/Thesis_.pdf">Governing food: Media, politics and pleasure</a><a href="http://www.louiseofresco.com/pdf/The%20Dilemma%20of%20Michael%20Pollan%20_%20Louise%20O.%20Fresco.pdf">Michael Pollan&amp;aposs Misguided Food Nostalgia</a> <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/slow-food-artisanal-natural-preservatives/">A Plea for Culinary Modernism</a><a href="http://www.rachellaudan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Slow-Food.pdf">The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism</a><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/farmworkers-local-locavore-agriculture-exploitation/">The Dark Side of Local</a> Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!<a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase" rel="payment">Support the show</a>

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