Benjamin R. Cohen

Benjamin R. Cohen Benjamin R. Cohen teaches at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. He is the author of Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food (Chicago, 2019) and co-editor of Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food (with Michael Kideckel and Anna Zeide) (MIT, 2021), along with other works in the history of science, technology, agriculture, and food.

Members of Universe City, a decentralized food hub in the Brownsville neighborhood that is working to build food sovereignty while also promoting community healing practices, pack bags of fresh produce from Green Top Farms which will be distributed to area food banks, community leaders and other places to serve New Yorkers in need of food on July 22, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. December 2021
Decolonizing the GMO debate
Opinion
by Benjamin R. Cohen
12.16.2021
Opinion