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As legal scholar Michelle Alexander outlines in The New Jim Crow, her bestselling account of the War on Drugs and its impact on the criminal justice system, more black men are currently under correctional control in the United States than were enslaved in 1850.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

also read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, an open and hard-hitting answer to the author’s sincere question, If I really knew the realities of animal agriculture, could I still eat meat? At the book’s conclusion, Foer couldn’t. And now, no longer, could I.
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
I don't eat mussels in restaurants unless I know the chef personally, or have seen, with my own eyes, how they store and hold their mussels for service.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
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Rachel Laudan • A Plea for Culinary Modernism
DERRICK JENSEN (This article first appeared in the March 2003 issue of the Ecologist, www.theecologist.org)
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Paul had always been perverse about complacency. It was his theory that he had to keep things off balance or it’s finito.