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Category Archives: Ethics

Quick hit: The Office Fridge

April 7, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

NPR’s The Salt has a deliciously damning post about thievery in office fridges. Apparently NPR offices, too, suffer the scourge that has inspired dozens of passive-aggressive notes worldwide–and their write-up is […]

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Business, Ethics, Manners

Link Buffet: Definitions

June 27, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

. . . legal and cultural. I’ve been meaning to post this forever, but in the Spring 2012 Dissent, Mark Engler offers a straightforward, informative overview of three movements toward ethical growing and […]

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Ethics, Food in the City, Health, Link Buffet, Political Theater, Science

Philosophy of a Philly Foodie

January 15, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Let’s get some assumptions out of the way, shall we? You don’t have to eat expensively to eat healthy food. You don’t have to eat expensively to eat delicious food. […]

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Class, Consumer Culture, Ethics, Food Distribution and Resources, Food in the City, Trends

The Environmental Attaché

December 16, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Yesterday there was a package waiting on my stairs. I was perplexed: I hadn’t ordered anything recently and wasn’t expecting any gifts. And then I opened it. . . . […]

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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Ethics, Merchandise

Two food artists you can see for yourself

March 27, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

These two artists recently popped up in my feed reader (no pun intended), and I was struck that for each, an intent to make the art accessible to the public is built into […]

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Art, Ethics, Food in the City, Performance, Photography, Playing with Food

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Sara Davis
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