The Edible Road Back to Privacy

Why in writing for the web would you dump URLs at the bottom of the text in a source list instead of making links with them, so the reader can use them to gain context in the course of reading?

So the purpose of the essay is comparison. On one side is a consumer movement about food, which has a purity proposition: partly about the chemistry of what we eat, and partly about the ethics of how we grow and process it. On the other side of the comparison is the subject this juxtaposition is supposed to illuminate.

But the value of the exercise lies in the detailed evocation of relevant correspondences. This can take us only so far, before the reader will need to cross back over and use those correspondences to increase her understanding of the actual subject. But even this first step is not very completely taken here. Little is really said about our subject, and what is for some reason hinges on "metadata," without explanation of the reason that fabled distinction is so important. Your comparison mostly also crosses a line between market activity and state activity subject to constitutional limitation, but without acknowledgment or analysis of that difference.

The route to improvement is rebalancing: more space for the subject to be explained, less to the comparand intended to catalyze the explaining.