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Ted Genoways is the author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food (Harper, 2014), a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature, and he is under contract with W. W. Norton for two new books, This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Farm and Tequila Wars: The Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico. He is a contributing writer at Mother Jones, The New Republic, and OnEarth. His reporting and commentary have also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s, The New York Times, Outside, and the Washington Post Book World. In 2014, he received a National Press Club Award for his reporting on ag gag laws and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for his reporting on the health effects of refineries in Port Arthur, Texas.