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Sriracha sauce and Fresh Off the Boat can tell us a surprising amount about our media and our country says Tufts Film and Media Studies director and professor Tasha Oren.

Dr. Blanchette received the award for his book "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm"

"How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet", co-edited by Alex Blanchette, is the winner of the 2021 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize

Alex Blanchette's book "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm" (Duke University Press, 2020) was awarded second prize of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing by the Society of Humanistic Anthropology

In a Tell Me More podcast, Tufts experts explore the nature of attention, from the trouble with multitasking to the costs of staying too focused

Older male chimps follow a pattern that researchers also see in humans, preferring to have positive relationships with a few good friends

With huge numbers of infections in slaughterhouses, workers and environmentalists must join forces for change

Editor Ken Wissoker talks with Alex Blanchette about his new book, "Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm"

In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals