Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing...

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted