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Hosted by Nick Mackenzie · society · EN-US · 17 episodes
Nothing an economy makes is fought over harder than the things that keep us alive: the crops we eat and the fibers we wear. This 17-part ReThink History series follows seventeen of them and finds the same story every time, a struggle between capital and labor over a plant that everyone must consume, settled again and again by force (slavery, massacre, coup, deportation) or by organizing (revolt, union, boycott, law). It opens on the Boston Tea Party, when a tax on a consumable lit a revolution, and carries every crop to the present day, 2026. Corn and the sacred maize of Mesoamerica against NAFTA and the GM-seed monopoly. Cacao, the bean that was money, and cochineal, the insect that painted the world red, turned from Aztec tribute into guarded Spanish monopolies. Balsam of Peru, the Salvadoran resin robbed even of its name. Sugar and the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt that ever won. Coffee and El Salvador's 1932 massacre, La Matanza. King Cotton, the fiber that made slavery
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Episode #17
Sixteen crops told one story. The finale pulls every thread together, names where power sits now (the seed patent, the subsidy, the visa, the consolidated firms) and the counterweight (the boycott, the union, the co-op, the vote), and the host closes in his own voice, from a boy on the Panama plantations to a physician in the Salinas fields. Your grocery bill is still a ballot.
Episode #17
Sixteen crops told one story. The finale pulls every thread together, names where power sits now (the seed patent, the subsidy, the visa, the consolidated firms) and the counterweight (the boycott, the union, the co-op, the vote), and the host closes in his own voice, from a boy on the Panama plantations to a physician in the Salinas fields. Your grocery bill is still a ballot.
Episode #16
Cheap, abundant food depends on a workforce the law won't fully admit. From the Bracero Program to today's undocumented-majority workforce and the booming H-2A visa, then the 2025-26 collision of ICE raids and a fight over cutting H-2A wages. Deliberately two-sided: growers, workers, and the enforcement rationale all get the strongest version of their case.
Episode #16
Cheap, abundant food depends on a workforce the law won't fully admit. From the Bracero Program to today's undocumented-majority workforce and the booming H-2A visa, then the 2025-26 collision of ICE raids and a fight over cutting H-2A wages. Deliberately two-sided: growers, workers, and the enforcement rationale all get the strongest version of their case.
Episode #15
Even the humble squash carries the same fight as sugar or cotton. One of the oldest crops in the Americas and part of the Indigenous 'Three Sisters,' a food-sovereignty model displaced by monoculture, and now a USMCA trade-war flashpoint as Southeastern growers lobby for tariffs on Mexican imports.
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