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From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food -- even what we're told is good for us -- has changed for the wors



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Kristin Lawless

Kristin Lawless (she previously published as Kristin Wartman) is an author and journalist focusing on the intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, VICE, Huffington Post, Civil Eats, and Grist, as well as in academic journals such as Critical Quarterly, The Black Scholar, Tikkun Magazine, and The New Labor Forum. Her first book, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FOOD, is an exploration of how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture.

Kristin is also a Certified Nutrition Educator and works as a nutrition consultant with doctors in New York City. She holds a Masters Degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She lives in Brooklyn.



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