Checking The Check

Published work by Justin Moldenhauer

Who's grading the test?
Check the check.

My first book asks who gets paid to check the labels, studies and certifications behind the food we buy.

Cover of Big Organic: Certifiably Sold by Justin Moldenhauer

Big Organic: Certifiably Sold

Follows the word "organic" from one farmer in 1940 to the label on your shelf, and asks who is paid to check it. 76 chapters, sourced to public documents.

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The one claim

A system can't really check itself when the checker is paid, controlled, or otherwise answerable to the thing it's checking.

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