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Jan Dutkiewicz

  • Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
New York
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Assistant Professor @PrattInstitute Contributing Editor @newrepublic Feed the People! @basicbooks (mostly -at-jandutkiewicz at other place)
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People Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful.

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By Jan Dutkiewicz
| Yahoo
“Parents shouldn’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to understand what they’re feeding their kids,” California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel declared last month, announcing a new food-labeling bill. Over the past few years, Gabriel has emerged as a vocal and effective legislative proponent of healthier eating, sponsoring state legislation in 2025 that defined the famously slippery term “ultra-processing” and that removed food dyes and some “ultra-processed” foods from school lunches.
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People Love to Blame "Ultra-Processed Food." It's Unhelpful.

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By Jan Dutkiewicz
| The New Republic
So there are two questions we need to ask as anti-ultra-processed food policies start to gain momentum across the nation. First, are we blaming the right thing for our health woes? And second, are our proposed solutions actually likely to help?
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What the James Talarico Vegan Story Reveals About U.S. Politics

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By Jan Dutkiewicz
| Yahoo
Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, advocating republican form of government in the thirteen colonies, turned him into a national hero. Few people today realize that he in fact died poverty-stricken and alone—his opposition to religious dogma in his last major work, The Age of Reason, having proven significantly less popular in early American society than his writings against monarchy.
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