No Satiation

Will wrote a dissertation that looked at—among other food issues—the history of the burrito and Chipotle Mexican Grill's use of online media to persuade people to eat burritos. In another chapter, he also looked at something he called micro(be)politics. One of the things he found is that there's this idea going around right now that we are more like ecosystems than individuals. There are microbes covering everything around us and in us. We are way more microbe than human in terms of our cellular make up and our DNA. Our "selves" contain way more bacterial DNA than human DNA. Will is really interested in the way that this idea challenges our notion of what it means to be human. How might we behave differently if we understand ourselves as ecosystems rather than humans? How might we relate to one another and our ecologies? So naturally, he followed with great interest the headlines about Chipotle's problems with foodborne illness because it exists at this intersection of burritos