This Week - Jul 31, 2015

Our lack of action as a country suggests that we don’t value the lives of innocent Americans over the minutes of inconvenience that potential gun buyers might face. So unless we are willing to start telling our elected leaders to pass background check reform, we might as well continue to just haggle over the price of innocent lives.

— We’re Just Haggling Over Price (Eric Conrad for Medium)

At some point within the last decade or two, the local-food mantra had rooted itself so inextricably into Californian food culture that, without realizing it, the city’s dining community within area code 415 had become wary of foods made by international artisans.

— Has the Locally Made Movement Gone Too Far? (Christine Ciarmello for Saveur)