Last updated on March 24, 2016 James McWilliams Comprehensive Bibliography Books Eating Promiscuously: Essays on the Future of Food. Counterpoint, 2017. The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals. Thomas Dunne Books, 2015. America’s Native Nut: A Brief History of the Pecan Tree. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. The Politics of the Pasture: How Two Oxen Inspired a National Debate about Eating Animals. New York: Lantern Books, 2013. Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. Boston: Little, Brown, 2009. American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2007. A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Articles, reviews, essays, opinions and editorials, etc. 2016 “The omnivore’s contradiction: That free-range, organic meat was still an animal killed for your dinner,” Salon.com, January 3, 2016 as accessed on January 8, 2016. Excerpt from: The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals http://www.salon.com/2016/01/03/the_omnivores_contradiction_that_free_range_organic _meat_was_still_an_animal_killed_for_your_dinner/ “What if Eating Meat was Considered Sexist?” Pacific Standard, January 8, 2016 as accessed on January 8, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/what-if- eating-meat-was-considered-sexist “How the 1% Gardens,” Texas Observer, February 2016, p. 34-35. “On Chips and Microchips,” Pacific Standard, February 1, 2016 as accessed on February 8, 2016 http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/what-digital-technology-can- teach-us-about-our-food-problems “The Failure of Food Journalism,” Pacific Standard, February 10, 2016 as accessed on February 18, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-failure-of-food- journalism “Forget What You’ve Heard: Organic Food is Not Food Grown Without Pesticides,” Pacific Standard, February 19, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/forget-what-youve-heard-organic-food-is- not-food-grown-without-pesticides “The Failure of a Piece of Landmark Animal Welfare Legislation,” Pacific Standard, March 9, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/the-failure-of-a-piece-of-landmark-animal-welfare-legislation “The Culinary Potential of the Canine,” Pacific Standard, March 16, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-failure-of-a-piece-of- landmark-animal-welfare-legislation “Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie,” The American Scholar, Spring 2016 Cover Story, p. 22-35. 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Consult the Dog,” Pacific Standard, February 18, 2015, as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-we-blame-obesity-on-mom-and-dad- consult-the-dog “The Stealth Trade Agreement That Could Super-Size Industrial Agriculture,” Pacific Standard, February 20, 2015, as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-stealth-trade-agreement-that-could- super-size-industrial-agriculture “The Ecological Wisdom of Leaving Nature Alone,” Pacific Standard, March 5, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/get-off-my- grass “Our Warm Embrace of Those Allergic to Peanuts,” Pacific Standard, March 20, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/our-warm- embrace-of-those-allergic-to-peanuts “Proponents of Raw Milk Are No Better Than Anti-Vaccine Advocates,” Pacific Standard, March 26, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature- and-technology/raw-milk-is-a-raw-deal “Getting Meta about Mules: Faulkner and the Fine Art of Slowing Down,” The Millions, March 31, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/getting-meta-about-mules-faulkner-and-the-fine- art-of-slowing-down.html “Inside Big Ag: On the Dilemma of the Meat Industry,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.vqronline.org/nonfiction-criticism/2015/04/inside-big-ag-dilemma-meat- industry “Whining About Labels,” Pacific Standard, April 2, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/whining-about-how-your-wine-doesnt-have- any-labels-and-how-are-you-supposed-to-even-know-whats-in-it “Ban GMOs: That Shit Ain’t Food,” Pacific Standard, April 14, 2015 as accessed on April 23, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/ban-gmos-that-shit-aint-food “These ‘Local’ Piggies Went to Market,” Pacific Standard, April 22, 2015 as accessed on April 23, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/small-farmers-plugged- into-local-economics-arent-somehow-ipso-facto-honest-farmers “Getting a Clue About the Avian Flu,” Pacific Standard, May 5, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/getting-a-clue-about-the- avian-flu “Do Personal Food Choices Affect the Drought in California?” Pacific Standard, May 13, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/do-personal-food-choices-affect-the-drought-in-california “Roger That,” Paris Review Daily, May 13, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/13/roger-that/ “Going Down the Rabbit Hole of Deceit,” Pacific Standard, May 21, 2015 as accessed on June 9, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/going-down-the-rabbit- hole-of-deceit “What Does an $85 Meal of Garbage Signify?” Pacific Standard, June 3, 2015 as accessed on June 9, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/would-you-pay- 85-bucks-for-a-plate-of-garbage “The Examined Lie, a meditation on memory,” The American Scholar, Summer 2015, Cover Story. Online as accessed on June 9, 2015. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-examined-lie/#.VXc230ZkZLF “Our Failed Food Movement,” Pacific Standard June 17, 2015 as accessed on June 25, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/our-failed-food-movement “Humble Pig,” Pacific Standard, June 23, 2015 as accessed on June 25, 2015.http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/mark-essig-lesser-beasts-a-snout-to- tail-history-of-the-humble-pig “On the Value of Not Knowing Everything,” The Hedgehog Review, Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2015). Accessed on July 2, 2015. http://iasc- culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_McWilliams.php “What Does Your Local Food Environment Say About Your Waistline?” Pacific Standard, July 7, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health- and-behavior/what-does-your-local-food-environment-say-about-your-waistline “The Other Oil Boom,” Texas Monthly, August 2015 [need print volume & issue number]. As accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.texasmonthly.com/food/the-other-oil-boom/ “What’s So Bad About the Paleo Diet?” Pacific Standard, July 21, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/whats-so-bad-about-the- paleo-diet “Can Eating Meat Be Ethical?” Pacific Standard, August 11, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-eating-meat-be-ethical “Can Animals Have Rights and Still be Dinner?” August 19, 2015 as accessed on September 13, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-an-animal-have- rights-and-still-be-dinner “When Big Ag Gobbles up Small Ag Is there Any Hope for Real Reform?” Pacific Standard, September 17, 2015 as accessed on September 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/when-big-ag-gobbles-up-small-ag-is-there- any-hope-for-real-reform “Nature Writing Gets Personal,” The Hedgehog Review, September, 2015 as accessed on October 12,2015. http://iasc-culture.org/THR/channels/THR/2015/09/nature-writing- gets-personal/ “Do We have a Contract With the Animals We Eat?” Pacific Standard, September 24, 2015 as accessed on October 12, 2015.