Simran Sethi
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Simran Sethi is a freelancer reporter who focuses on food, science, and culture. She is the author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, named one of the best food books of 2016 by Smithsonian, and the host/creator of The Slow Melt, winner of the 2017 SAVEUR award for Best Food Podcast.
![A mural of an indigenous woman shelling corn by Rosy Peraza Rios on the left. And an image of corn fields in Sonora, Mexico on the right. July 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/v2_glyphosate-mexico-corn-maize-july-2021.jpg)
![Two Ivorian gendarmes walk towards a child caught drying cocoa in the sun in the village of Opouyo in Soubre, on May 7, 2021 during an operation to remove children working on cocoa plantations. June 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ivory-coast-child-labor-chocolate-cocoa-june-2021.jpg)
![Wheat diversity. May 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/biodiversity-conservation-manage-future-pandemics-plants-humans-may-2021.jpg)
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![Food is distributed to hundreds outside of a Brooklyn mosque and cultural center on December 11, 2020 in New York City.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Food-distribution-at-Brooklyn-mosque-December-2020-1.jpg)
![Illustration of an empty fridge in front of a black and white photo of a stocked produce aisle. December 2020](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Food-insecurity-hunger-covid-19-simran-sethi-december-2020-feature-copy-2.jpg)
![Choir at deposit outside of seed vault Feb 2020](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/choir-at-deposit-outside-seed-vault-feb-2020.jpg)
![How the industrialization of agricultural is reducing biodiversity. Credit: iStock / Niran_pr, March 2019](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/biodiversity-agriculture-food-scarcity-climate-change-industrialization-march-2019.jpg)