Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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What Do You Think About Potatoes?
i couldn't help but think of those, i don't know if you thought i the mountain of potatoes that farmers in idaho were left with. The reason why there was such a problem for potato farmers was because of the role of em french fries and other deep fried potato products in the restaurant business. And so that kind of yo, that should make us think, owa for what are we growing this food? O potatoes weren't the only thing that suffered in that way, of course. I er even millions of leters of pints of milk were being thrown away because starbucks shutting down and things like that. But so it partlymakesitshould. It should make us
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