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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Meet the meat industry: An article for the curious but unacquainted

Isabella Hunter, Columnist April 1, 2022

TW: Graphic descriptions, link containing graphic content If you’re anything like me, you’ve been vaguely aware of the scope of animal cruelty within the meat industry for the majority of your life....

Illustration by Meg Cuca

Insidious Advertising Corrupts our Lives

Peggy Li, Opinion Editor February 16, 2017

In childhood, it started with the commercials on all of our favorite TV channels, but as we’ve gotten older, advertisements have morphed and adapted with us and to us. Lately, no matter where you’re...

Illustration by Meg Cuca

Mainstream Media: No Second Helpings Please

Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist November 10, 2016

Like most of my colleagues, I am the result of an experiment. I am what happens when you take 25 million kids and raise them on a 24-hour all-you-can-eat information buffet. A buffet in which a few main...

Illustration by Meg Cuca

Stop staring, protect yourself

Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist October 27, 2016

I have a friend who has an unhealthy penchant for stale metaphor. Just last week we were discussing the Ruth Fluno retrospective at Sheehan when he referred to the art as “a delicious feast.” Normally...

Illustration by Meg Cuca

Treat your journalists right

Andrew Schwartz October 20, 2016

Two headlines off the impetuous digital press dateline September 8, 2016: “The Entire Seattle Seahawks Team Will Protest the National Anthem at Opening Game” and “Entire Seahawks Team Planning to...

High Consumption Demands Tough Choices

Danielle Broida October 31, 2012
Unless we can significantly reduce our resource use in America, blaming environmental issues on overpopulation is simply unethical, leaving us with the hard choice: to stop having kids like we suggest to the third world, or consume less.
Farmers must take greater role in preventative medicine

Farmers must take greater role in preventative medicine

Danielle Broida October 4, 2012
America is sicker than ever, and it is imperative that we see nutrition as the key to health, thereby embracing farmers as healers.
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