February 27, 2014. WE HAD TO RESCHEDULE JAMES FOR MARCH 5TH.
I’m an historian and writer based in Austin, Texas. My books include Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Little, Brown) and A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Columbia University Press).
My writing on food, agriculture, and animals has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post, Slate, and The Texas Observer, where I’ve been a contributing writer since 2002. I’m a frequent contributor to Freakonomics.com, Conservation, Pacific Standard, and Laika Magazine. My literary non-fiction has appeared in The Millions and The New York Times Book Review.
Current projects include two books. One, tentatively titled A Graceful Distance: The Cultural Origins of Factory Farming in the United States (Cornell University Press), explores the transformation of the human-farm animal relationship that provided the cultural and psychological foundation for large-scale animal agriculture in the nineteenth century. The second, tentatively titled Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals (St. Martin’s), investigates the hidden ethical, environmental, and economic problems with small scale animal agriculture today, insisting that a plant-based diet is the most effective answer to the problems of industrial animal agriculture.
These days, much of my time is spent writing about food, agriculture, and animals at Forbes.com, where I’ve been a contributor since November 2013.
I am not on Facebook, but I tweet @the_pitchfork.
http://www.txstate.edu/history/people/faculty/mcwilliams.html
List of Publications (updated August 27, 2013): McWilliams Biblio [August 27 2013]
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Paperback)
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The Pecan: A History of America’s Native Nut (Hardcover)
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The Politics of the Pasture (Kindle Edition)
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