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Aim for the Stomach

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Why the threat to food supplies — and industrial agriculture's role in global warming — is central to the discourse on climate change.

Avocados grow in a Moorpark, California orchard. Photo: Ton Otter. Share The writer Upton Sinclair once famously said, upon the reaction to his classic exposé of the slaughterhouse industry, The Jungle , “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” He thought he was writing a book exposing the horrendous conditions for workers, and instead ignited outrage over the plight of the unsanitary slaughtering of animals and contamination of the meat. When it comes to reporting on the climate crisis, let’s aim for the stomach instead of getting to it accidentally, as Sincla

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