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While I am all in favor of capitalism and making a profit, it seems that where health is concerned, we have allowed forces to run amok to the extent that today we must question the approach, motives, and trustworthiness of many of the traditional pillars of health, human compassion, and expert knowledge.
Mark Sisson • The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
Meltdown: Time weighs in with a cover showing a cartoon depiction of Trump as a featureless mouth, melting away like a hot wax statue with a one-word caption: “Meltdown.” The cover is in turn covered by other media, as if it’s news.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
charlie squire • Digital Graveyards
a book by John Robbins, onetime heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune who renounced his inheritance when he discovered the harmful effects of animal product consumption at every level. In his epic The Food Revolution (an update to his earlier, groundbreaking Diet for a New America), Robbins lays out as clearly and forcefully as possible the
... See moreHoward Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Since low-quality information is just as effective at satisfying our information-cravings as high-quality information, the most efficient way to get attention in the digital age is by mass-producing low-quality "junk info"— a kind of fast food for thought. Like fast food, junk info is cheap to produce and satisfying to consume, but high in additiv
... See moreGurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Chinese laborers "finish" smartphones by wiping off any fingerprints with a highly toxic solvent proven to shorten the workers lives. That's how valuable it is for consumers to believe their devices have been assembled by magic rather than by the fingers of underpaid and poisoned children.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
We buy products that have been recommended to us through the monitoring of our electronic lives, and then we voluntarily leave feedback for others about what we have purchased. We are the compliant subject who submits to all manner of biometric and surveillance intrusion, and who ingests toxic food and water and lives near nuclear reactors without
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