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The Cost of Doing Better
There are no silver bullets when it comes to sustainability in food and agriculture.
Sep 15
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Solving The Ozone Hole
What we can learn from fixing a hole in the sky for food systems and climate change.
Sep 8
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Context and Intent
Why every honest answer about food and health lives in "it depends" land.
Sep 1
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August 2026
Give the People What They Want
Every tradition was once a strange food nobody wanted.
Aug 25
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The Ethnic Food Price Ceiling
Why we won’t let a bowl of pho cost $30, yet a plate of tagliatelle can?
Aug 18
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Mike Lee
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What is a Restaurant For?
Mise 02: The Restaurant Issue is out today. Four futures for 2040, eight stories from the people who live there.
Aug 11
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Mike Lee
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Three Questions for a Crystal Ball
You have a crystal ball that can tell you anything about the future. What do you ask it?
Aug 4
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Mike Lee
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July 2026
The Story I Keep Telling
I’m on vacation this week, so here are five of my most popular essays from 2026 that circle around the same big argument.
Jul 28
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Mike Lee
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The Honor System
Testing takes time. Time is the one thing nobody in this chain has to spare.
Jul 21
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Mike Lee
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120 Years in The Jungle
A hundred and twenty years after Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, American meat is the safest it has ever been and the people who cut it are easier…
Jul 14
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Mike Lee
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Four Thousand Calories and Still Hungry
The 2026 farm bill keeps solving a problem America finished decades ago.
Jul 7
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June 2026
The Influencer Will See You Now
A wellness boom now runs on crypto and former fentanyl chemists, and it says more about the future of food than we’d like.
Jun 30
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Mike Lee
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