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Ted Genoways

Politics Health

Compromised

How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

Ted Genoways The New Republic Dec 2017 25min Permalink

Business Science

Heart of Agave

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Aug 2015 10min Permalink

Business World

Corn Wars

The Chinese want to steal our genetically-engineered grain secrets. Why?

Ted Genoways The New Republic Aug 2015 15min Permalink

Arts Business Food

"Hurt That Bitch"

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

Read more

Excerpted from The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Oct 2014 35min Permalink

Science

The Whistleblower

Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River. Was John Bolenbaugh fired for refusing to cover this up?

  1. Part 1: Oil, Lies, and Videotape

  2. Part 2: Buried Secrets

  3. Part 3: Quest for Redemption

Ted Genoways OnEarth Apr 2012 55min Permalink

Food

The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret

First Hormel gutted the union. Then it sped up the line. And when the pig-brain machine made workers sick, they got canned.

Ted Genoways Mother Jones Jun 2011 Permalink