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...brown, cell-like material morphing shape as it drifts from one screen to another.Computers sense which screen the observer looks at, and that screen stops drifting. Recently, however, he’s looking towards projects with more macroscopic subject matter.“Imagine a field of wheat or corn, and it’s growing,” says Knep, outlining a future project for a DSB building. “You walk by and create some wind and the whole thing moves. Because you walk, the next person sees a different field than what...
...into four categories. One is industrial, meaning giant agribusiness. Then there are the two kinds of organic, large and small scale. Finally there's anything hunted and foraged. He goes on an adventure down each food chain, fattening a beef calf for market or following the path of industrial corn all around the country. Each trip ends in a meal made of foods from that category...
Modern agriculture leaves him deeply troubled. He marvels at how massive surpluses of corn, made possible by the use of noxious chemical fertilizers and pesticides, have led to the rise of huge feedlots where cattle are pumped full of antibiotics and corn-based feed to hasten them to their fate as cheeseburgers. Organic farming? It has its virtues, but he discovers that our visions of contented cows and free-range chickens don't always match the realities. In a final lunge toward authenticity, he forages for mushrooms in a burned-over pine forest and shoots a wild pig, a primal...
...monthly research journal, “Environmental Health Perspectives.” The study—authored by Stacey A. Missmer of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a team of researchers here and in Texas—correlates the over-consumption of corn tortillas with neural-tube defects (NTDs) in unborn children. Often debilitating and sometimes fatal, NTDs such as anencephaly and spina bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas and other corn products in the diets of expectant mothers living along the Rio Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin...
...prices go up, buying goes down, especially among younger consumers,” said Alison Field, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Other experts would also like to see the government reduce farm subsidies that help make sodas cheaper. “Subsidies for corn make high-fructose corn syrup, an already cheap product and the main ingredient in soda, even cheaper,” says David S. Ludwig, associate professor of pediatrics at HMS. Students who listed soda as an interest in their facebook profiles said that they would be disappointed if the price of soda...