A Green New Deal for Agriculture

Here’s a piece run by Jacobin, written by Jim Goodman and me, on the history of the New Deal, and how it matters for rural America today. Agriculture policy in the original New Deal sprang from a heady mix of class struggle and uneasy alliances. The Green New Deal will have to stitch together a different coalition that can challenge the dominant mode of agriculture and create a more just food system.

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Chicken, for Christ’s sake

Below, an adaptation of part of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, written with Jason W Moore, published in The Guardian. If you’ve read the book, do look out for the post-publication addendum of the story of Oklahoma-based Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery. CAAIR was set up by chicken executives so that survivors of the opioid epidemic might pray by day and work on the understaffed night-shift at slaughterhouses. Do read the full story, as researched by the Center for Investigative Reporting. And, meantime, here’s the excerpt as published in the Long Reads series at the Guardian.

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Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds

Get a copy of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, which I wrote with Jason W Moore, at your local independent bookstore in the US and Canada. If you must, here’s the Amazon link (I’ll get a referral fee which I’ll give to La Via Campesina).

We’re committed to making sure these ideas spread far and wide. The book’s introduction, in which we lay out our argument at some length, is available for free here. Continue reading “Seven Cheap Things in Three Minutes Forty Five Seconds”

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