Kristen Lawless
Kristin Lawless is the author of “Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture,” which was the winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature in 2019. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, and VICE, as well as in academic journals, such as The Black Scholar, Critical Quarterly, and The New Labor Forum.
How industrial food makes us more vulnerable to COVID-19
When I finished working on my book, “Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture,” in 2018 — after 10 years of research and writing — I was certain of two things: First, our industrial food system is decimating our environment. Second, our nutrient-depleted, and chemically saturated…
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