Ted Genoways is editor-at-large at Pacific Standard magazine. He is author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food and the forthcoming This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm. Genoways is a former editor-at-large of onEarth magazine.
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