Articles by Tom Philpott
Tom Philpott was previously Grist's food writer. He now writes for Mother Jones.
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The end of lobster rolls? Not so fast
Maine’s lobster population is flourishing thanks two highly destructive, human-induced forces: climate change and overfishing.
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Tom's Kitchen: pasta with snap peas and fennel
Snap peas and parsley and fresh hearts of fennel ... these are a few of my favorite things.
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Jerry Brown 2.0: friend or foe of farmworkers?
This week Jerry Brown vetoed the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act, which would have improved working conditions for California farmworkers.
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How the meat industry turned abuse into a business model
As a long-time student of the meat industry, I read Ted Genoways' extraordinary article on conditions at the "head table" of a factory-scale pig-processing plant with delight. As a human being, my reaction was revulsion.
