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“The Edge of Extraordinary” in Vela Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015

Excerpted from Vela Magazine: I had gone into science for the awe, but I eventually discovered that continuing on that path would mean that most of my life would be made up of statistics, entering numbers into databases, writing papers so dry that they didn’t feel like writing to me. Moments of awe would be […]

“The art of butchery,” in Aeon Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on April 29, 2015April 29, 2015

In the past several decades, the world’s meat consumption has risen, reaching a new peak in 2002 at 219 lbs (just over 99 kg) per person, Fitzgerald says. Slaughtering methods have become even more efficient and prices for meat have actually dropped, reaching the lowest in 50 years. The number of meat-processing facilities has decreased, […]

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