A recent report by MarketResearch.Biz titled as Organic Food Preservatives Market 2019: Market Size, Trends & Opportunity Outlook Forecast to 2028 provides the key trends, opportunities and challenges market will face in the forecasted period of10 years. The study also provides the Organic Food Preservatives market competitors share and region-wise analysis around the globe.

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The major players operating in the Organic Food Preservatives market are:

Cargill, Incorporated, I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Tate & Lyle PLC, Univar Inc, Kemin Industries Inc, Hawkins Watts Limited, Naturex S.A., Kalsec Inc, Brenntag North America Inc

These players have adopted various growth strategies, such as acquisitions, mergers, partnerships, and collaborations to strengthen their market reach and retain their position in the market.

Organic Food Preservatives Market Segmentation:

Segmentation by Function: Antimicrobials, Antioxidants, Others. Segmentation by Nutrients: Minerals, Vitamins, Phytonutrients, Others. Segmentation by Application: Bakery & Confectionery, Dairy & Frozen Products, Meat, Snacks & Beverages, Others

Geographically,This report studies key regions [Like United States, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India and more], focused on product sales, share, value and growth opportunities in these regions.

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While kids are getting excited about hitting the slopes, local families are bracing for a brutal cold and flu season. Although parents can't control everything, when it comes to their kids' health, there are preventative measures that may help limit the impact.

Havilah Brodhead is a family nurse practitioner and the owner of Hearthside Medicine Family Care in Bend. She works with local families and warns that influenza, strep, norovirus, RSV, pertussis, pneumonia and rhinovirus are coming. Brodhead explains that more illnesses are born in colder months because people spend more time inside where microscopic droplets from cough or sneeze are invisibly suspended mid-air, just waiting to be inhaled.

The good news, according to Brodhead, is that our immune systems are primed for what she calls a systemic, underground warfare, ready to protect us with layers of defense. "One of our most under-appreciated defense systems works as a physical barrier: our skin," she explains. "Beneath our skin circulates our under-armor powerhouse: antibodies."

The human body is undeniably incredible, but there are ways to help it out during the cold and flu season. Brodhead suggests taking some of the following steps to help fortify your family members' immune systems for the months to come.

Encourage sleep: Lack of sleep sends bodies into a stress response, which lowers immunity. As a rule, preschoolers (ages 3-5), should get between 10-13 hours of sleep each night. Children ages 6 to 13 need 9-11 hours, and adolescents ages 14-17 require between 8-10 hours.

Decrease stress and pressure: You've likely heard about the toll stress takes on our immune systems. Teach your child healthy coping mechanisms and mindfulness. Anxiety, stress and depression often result in higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which lowers the immune system.

Increase the joy and cuddles: Multiple studies show that people who are positive tend to have more robust immune systems. Laughter has been documented to increase immunity! Hugging, cuddling and having skin-to-skin contact does wonders for mental and physical health.

Use warm water and soap over hand sanitizers whenever possible. Recent research revealed that even just rinsing hands in water prevents the flu more successfully than using hand sanitizers. Also, most hand sanitizers contain some ingredients that may be more harmful than good.

Protect your skin: Don't neglect that important first line of defense. Keep your skin free from cracks by using a thick moisturizer and, staying hydrated.

Food as medicine: Whenever you are able, choose organic, colorful fruits and vegetables and add them to every meal. Use organic whole grains for carbohydrates.

Proper sneezing technique: Teach your children to cough and sneeze into their elbows rather than into the air.

Choose your supplements wisely and be conservative: Exercise caution with supplements, especially pregnant or breastfeeding mothers, infants and young children. Some are safe while some are not so safe. Some can interact seriously with prescription medications or exacerbate health conditions. Supplements are not regulated by the FDA, so what is in the actual product may not be what is on the label or may be contaminated.

Our bodies are prepared to go to war during this cold and flu season. So, stock your fridge with healthy, organic foods and get ready to do a whole lot of cuddling. There are worse ways to spend your winter days.

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The global market for Organic Snack Food is expected to reach USD 762 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 5.34%, during the forecast period, 2019-2025.

The global snack food market is segmented by type into salted snacks, bakery snacks, confectionery, specialty & frozen snacks. The bakery snacks segment possesses the highest market coverage, while the salted snacks including potato chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, popcorn, pretzels, etc. are expected to have the highest market growth during the forecast period. The snack food industry also includes confectionery items like chocolates, candies and cookies, crackers, etc. The global snack food report discusses the market revenue in terms of distribution channels such as specialty stores, independent stores, online sales, convenience stores, supermarkets and hypermarket, etc.

Snack food has emerged as an alternative to full-fledged meals with the paradigm shift in consumer behaviour patterns. The higher disposable incomes, as a result of the growing urbanization and increasing preference for convenience food, have triggered the growth of the snacks industry.

Top Companies in the Global Organic Snack Food Market: Pure Organic, Prana, Made in Nature, Kadac Pty Ltd, Navitas Naturals, General Mills, Woodstock Farms Manufacturing, SunOpta, Simple Squares, Organic Food Bar and others.

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The geographical spectrum of the business as well as its influence on the overall Organic Snack Food market outlook:

With respect to the regional frame of reference, the report segments the Organic Snack Food market into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa.

Europe Holds the Major Share in Organic Snack Food Market:

Snack food products are largely consumed in the developed regions due to high commercialization and urbanization. The market is expected to growth with a high CAGR in developing countries across the globe. Europe represents the largest market for snack food products, followed by North America. The preference for healthy and nutritious snack food is expected to help maintain a steady growth in the developed markets. Asia-Pacific is poised to register the fastest growth during the forecast period, owing to the increasing demand from the developing countries of India and China. The spread of western eating habits to the developing world and growing urbanization have helped in better market penetration for the global players in the developing nations of Asia-Pacific and South America. Among countries, the United States continues to be the largest market, accounting for one-thirds of the total. Japan and the United Kingdom together account for one-fourth of the global snack food market share.

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The leading players of Organic Snack Food industry, their market share, product portfolio, company profiles are covered in this report. The leading market players are analysed on the basis of production volume, gross margin, market value, and price structure. The competitive market scenario among Organic Snack Food players will help the industry aspirants in planning their strategies. The statistics offered in this report will be precise and useful guide to shape the business growth.

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Report Overview: It includes major players of the global Organic Snack Food market covered in the research study, research scope, and market segments by type, market segments by application, years considered for the research study, and objectives of the report.

Global Growth Trends: This section focuses on industry trends where market drivers and top market trends are shed light upon. It also provides growth rates of key producers operating in the global Organic Snack Food market. Furthermore, it offers production and capacity analysis where marketing pricing trends, capacity, production, and production value of the global Organic Snack Food market are discussed.

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DUBLIN, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Pet Food Ingredient Market by Ingredient (Cereals, Meat & Meat Products, Vegetables, Fruits, Fats, and Additives), Source (Animal-based, Plant-based, and Synthetic), Pet (Dog, Cat, and Fish), Form (Dry and Liquid), and Region - Global Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global pet food ingredients market is estimated to be valued at USD 37.0 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 54.3 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 6.6% from 2019 to 2025.

The market is driven by factors such as the growing pet adoption rate among the urban population with a substantial improvement in pet food expenditure.

By pet, the cat segment is projected to witness the fastest growth during the forecast period

The cat segment is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR as sales of premium cat food are on the rise, and its high cost has not caused any hindrance in the growth of the premium cat food market. The increasing focus of consumers on preventive healthcare is one of the factors driving the demand for expensive and high-quality cat food in the pet food industry. There was a steady rise in the global sales of cat food from 2012 to 2018. The diversification of marketing channels for cat food and increased popularity of organic cat food products are factors that are projected to promote the growth of the cat food market.

By ingredient, the fats segment in the pet food ingredients market is projected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period

Several types of fat ingredients that are used in pet food include poultry fat, beef tallow, lard, bacon fat, and fish oils. Fats form an essential element in pet food. According to a research analysis conducted by Petnet on more than 2,300 dog foods and 1,600 cat foods, 73% of dog foods, and 65% of cat foods contain added fat. Additionally, 60% of dog foods and 45% of cat foods contain an oil additive. Among fats, the vegetable oil and fish oil markets are projected to grow at high rates.

South America is projected to be the fastest-growing region in the pet food ingredients market due to the increase in export-import of pet food ingredients and growing adoption rate

The South American pet food ingredients market is projected to grow at a steady pace due to the increase in the sale of pet food products in countries such as Brazil. Argentina is the fastest-growing pet food market attributed to increased consumer spending and consumer awareness, despite inflation. The government in the country is also supporting the pet owners and has promoted canine vaccinations and spaying/neutering programs. Nearly 15% of the owners have adopted stray dogs as their pets. Other breeds, such as Poodles, Labradors, and German shepherds are the most popular breeds in the country.

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Jim Baum could not be a better poster child for the eat local movement, knowing personally every farmer and purveyor whose products he sells, and he likes to share his knowledge with his customers. Under the name Marin Community Farm Stands, the cowboy-hat-wearing Baum, 44, has a store in Forest Knolls in West Marin and twice a week operates farmstands, on tables beneath one large tent in San Anselmo and Ross. I caught up with him on a recent Friday afternoon at his stand in front of San Anselmo Town Hall.

J.: Youre a Jew from Brooklyn and then New Jersey. How did you become Mr. Eat Local of Marin County?

Jim Baum: My sister moved to L.A. first and I joined her there. But then I drove up the coast, and the more north I got, the more real it became, and I fell in love. Once my wife and I came over the hill to West Marin, we felt this is home, this is the place we want to be.

How did your business start?

There was a small farmers market happening in San Geronimo Valley but it was hard for farmers to get enough volume, so I thought that aggregating from several farms would be a good idea. The farmstand was born out of that, in 2003. I had never worked in food before, but living here, I became really passionate about real food and about representing the farmers who grow it. In addition to the two farmstands, I have my store in Forest Knolls thats been open for the past five years. I always say that every town should have local, organic produce, but how can farmers be selling in every town? They need to be on the farm. So I can do it for them.

Twice a week you bring the farmstand to two Marin communities that arent big enough to support their own farmers markets. There must be more places that would love for you to set up your farmstand.

Ive been approached by some small towns. [While] they have a lot of character, theres not enough parking. You certainly cant block off a main street, it would be a traffic disaster. San Rafael has the [largest] farmers market in Marin County.

How many farms do you work with? Are they all in Marin County?

I work with about 40 farms. In the beginning they were all in Marin, but now I work with some in Tulare and Yolo counties and maybe a few more.

You dont sell just produce, though. You have local meat, cheeses and fish from local fisherman.

Yes. Its a month before Thanksgiving and I have 67 free-range turkeys ordered from me already.

Whats your goal for your business?

I began with just me, and I have six employees now. I would love for this to be franchisable. It could scale in the Bay Area; we have such an abundance of sustainable farmers. If its not in season, we dont have it. People need access to local, seasonal produce. Whats super about a supermarket? Whats safe about Safeway?

You describe yourself as a non-practicing Jew, but youve become quite involved with the Jews of West Marin group started by Rabbi Mendel and Batsheva Rice.

Yes, they came to the farmstand one day with their brand new baby and we just became instant friends. They have this really positive Chabad joy about them, and that inspired me to want to help the formation of West Marin Jews and get reconnected with my roots.

Ive done a few events with them where Ive donated the food. We made homemade applesauce from farmstand apples on Hanukkah, for example. We recently made kosher pizzas for Sukkot in a friends cob oven. As long as the temperature was over 950 degrees, it could be kosher. I dont keep kosher myself, but why not do a kosher event? I like the idea of elevating food as a way of getting closer to the source.

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The Zest hosts Dalia Colon(L) and Robin Sussingham.

Ever listen to a podcast and wonder how the sausage is made? Go catch The Zest host a free, live 2 p.m. taping at Sweetwater Organic Community Farms Sunday Morning Market.

Host Robin Sussingham is interviewing bee experts about the ins and outs of beekeeping, and why you should care about Floridas honey bees. Hear the buzz about whats pollinating in Tampa Bay, and stick around to sample some local honey. This family-friendly event comes with free parking, and the Sweetwater market kicks off at noon.

Sun. Nov. 10, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Free, bring cash for market vendors. Sweetwater Organic Community Farm, 6942 W. Comanche Ave., Tampa. thezestpodcast.com.

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Sacks of green chile are stacked by a field owned by the Grajeda family in Hatch. The Hatch Chile Festival celebrates the harvest during Labor Day weekend. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal )

Back in July, I visited my sister who lives in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland, Oregon. She is a chile fanatic, and when we are together, we try to cook both red and green chile dishes. When I visit her, I pack my suitcase with fragrant ground red chile from New Mexico. On this recent visit, we went to the supermarket to pick up some fixings to prepare our recipes. As we are strolling down the salsa aisle, she suddenly stops and lets out a cry, Look at this! I caught up with her and followed her gaze to dried red chile pods with Hatch chile on the label. Alongside were canned green chiles from Hatch. This was the first time she had seen Hatch chile sold where she lives.

One month later, she calls me ecstatically to tell me that her local organic produce store is holding a Hatch chile roasting demonstration, which featured chile roasted in the classic rotating roaster that we in the Southwest see in the fall months as chile season is upon us. Having hit the jackpot, my sister was in heaven. She ended up buying two 50-pound sacks of roasted chile. Knowing my sister, this might not last her through the winter.

Fresh, canned, or incorporated into recipes, you can now see Hatch chile featured in major fast-food chains throughout the world. Restaurants from Los Angeles to New York are serving dishes with Hatch chile. Globally, Hatch has become the standard for what is considered Southwest-style chile real chile, not the kind that looks like sloppy joe mix or tomato-based. I wont even acknowledge that Cincinnati chile can even be called chile. And notice that in New Mexico we spell chile with an e at the end of the word, not an i. Although I must admit that my favorite chile is the Chimay strain, having grown up eating this particular flavor in the northern New Mexico town of Espaola near the village of Chimay. I love Hatch chile in stews, enchiladas, sandwiches, and just on a plain toasted tortilla. Happiness for me is going to the Village of Hatch during chile season with my windows rolled down to smell fresh chiles being roasted.

Mind you, New Mexico has other places famous to the locals for chile such as Espaola, Lemitar, and Chimay. But curious as to why Hatch, a village of fewer than 2,000 people, located approximately half an hour north of Las Cruces, could become the epicenter of chile, I started researching the history of Hatch chile. All sources I reviewed say that chile has been grown in the Hatch Valley for centuries. However, the phenomenon of what is Hatch chile has several major components. The first is Joseph and Celestina Franzoy, Austrian immigrants who settled in the Hatch Valley in 1917. They were farmers unfamiliar with chile. One anecdote is that the first time they were served chile, they thought their host was trying to poison them. However, very quickly after this incident they fell in love with chile and saw it as a more financially advantageous crop compared with others, such as cotton.

Up until this time, chile was mostly grown for personal use. Being a natural entrepreneur, Joseph began to load his wagon with chile and sell it around the region, thus becoming the first person to commercialize what was to become Hatch chile. Others followed, and within a few decades, the concept of Hatch chile began to take shape. In 1971, just about the time that Americans started a love affair with spicy foods, the Hatch Chile Festival was established, growing from a handful of attendees to more than 30,000 today. As word spread about Hatch chile, it declared itself the Chile Capital of the World. A lot of places declare themselves the capital of the world for one reason or another, but most do not get past the tipping point where the label sticks.

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Finally, and most important, Hatch is a fantastic chile that is great-tasting. It is grown in a unique portion of the world the high, dry, New Mexico desert provides the climate and sandy soil conditions just right for Hatch chile to become, well, Hatch chile. Its roasted scent is the fragrance of New Mexico, and one of the first foods I can remember smelling.

Throughout the world, as people have started incorporating chile into their cuisine, the fame of Hatch chile has spread like a wildfire, no pun intended. When I can travel to the Portland, Oregon, area, the last place in the U.S. I would expect to find dried Hatch chile pods or to see fresh green chile being roasted New Mexico-style, it makes me proud to see what the tiny village of Hatch and its farmers have accomplished. New Mexican cuisine also has become famous throughout the world, in large part due to the success of Hatch chile. Isnt it ironic that Austrian immigrants, who supposedly experienced anti- immigrant hatred after WWI, came to a state dominated by minorities, fell in love with one of the mainstays of New Mexico cuisine, and helped make it world-famous? Their experience fits well within the multicultural diversity story that is New Mexico.

Writing about the aura of Hatch chile makes me want to thaw some roasted green chile I have in my freezer so that I can make green chile stew tonight. I bet my sister is doing the same thing.

Jerry Pacheco is the executive director of the International Business Accelerator, a nonprofit trade counseling program of the New Mexico Small Business Development Centers Network. He can be reached at 575-589-2200 or at jerry@nmiba.com.

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Gothenburg, Sweden (CNN) Halfway between Copenhagen and Oslo, on a rocky Swedish coastline, lies the largest non-capital in the Nordics.

Gothenburg has always played second fiddle to its big sister Stockholm. Historically seen as a lesser city -- more Volvo-industrial Sweden than sexy Spotify Sweden -- this salty seaport has spent the past few decades completely reinventing itself after the collapse of its vital shipbuilding industry in the 1970s.

The city does retain some of its industrial roots, but it's also a youthful university town, a high-tech research hub and, most importantly, a leader in sustainability whose population is expected to balloon by a third over the next 15 years thanks to its increasing allure.

Liseberg theme park's rides and attractions are all powered by renewable wind energy.

Mark Johanson

Despite the superlatives, Katarina Thorstensson, head of sustainability at tourism board Gteborg & Co, says "we try not to rub the word sustainability in peoples' faces, but rather communicate it in the atmosphere."

"To us, sustainability is very much about making a livable and a lovable city," she explains. "If the people of Gothenburg like living here, then other people will probably like to come here, too."

Gothenburg is a green city, in part, thanks to its closeness to forests and parks, but also on account of its compact layout and plentiful public transportation, 65% of which runs on renewable energy.

So what does all of this eco-mindedness look like in practice? Here's how you can eat, drink, sleep, shop and explore the greener side of Gothenburg.

What to do

Jubileumsparken features a free public sauna with changing facilities made from recycled bottles.

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Gothenburg claims an astounding 274 square meters (2,950 square feet) of green space per citizen. That translates to loads of urban parkland to visit on a (not so rare as you'd think) sunny day.

Vast Slottsskogen is ideal for serene forest walks, while Keillers Park offers hilltop strolls and soaring views over the bustling harbor. Sinewy Kungsparken is the most central of all. It forms a green girdle around the heart of town, lying on land that once held ramparts protecting Gothenburg from pesky Danish invaders.

Anyone can come here to swim in the public pool, bathe at a city beach, grow food in the urban garden, try out roller derby or sailing, or just relax by the water -- all free of charge. There's also a highly Instagrammable (and free to use) public sauna whose changing facilities were made from 12,000 recycled bottles.

Where to eat and drink

Taverna Averna sources organic produce for its creative thin-crust pizzas and salads from its rooftop garden.

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If Swedes have one national obsession it's fika, which translates to "a cake and coffee break" but is so much more than that in reality. Fika is a daily social ritual, an attitude and a Swedish state of mind. It's also a delicious injection of caffeine and sugar that keeps the country running.

Wherever you go, briny crustaceans like crayfish and lobster from the nearby Bohusln Coast are your best bet for true locavore cuisine. The critters are so fresh here you only need lemon and butter for seasoning.

Where to sleep

Hotel Eggers gets its electricity from its own wind turbine off the coast.

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A staggering 92% of all accommodation options in Gothenburg are eco-certified by regional sustainability organizations, so you can sleep easy knowing that your hotel is doing its part.

This glittery highrise hotel by Liseberg not only receives its energy from wind power, but also recycles 94% of its waste (leftover food goes to a local charity, while scraps are converted into the biogas fueling ovens in its five restaurants).

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One of the main arguments you hear against organic food is the price. Its perceived as being too expensive. In reality, I think this argument is only partially true. Consider the air miles, the animal welfare and the potential impact of intensive farming practices on our environment.

All of that said, I understand that Im typing this from a privileged position. For me, a couple of quid isnt going to break the bank. Im able to choose to eat organic because I can afford it. I can preach about saving the planet and higher animal welfare standards because I have those extra pennies in my pocket. But lets be honest, I dont have that many pennies. I lost my job in August through redundancy, and while I job hunt, Ive been pulling my belt in. Its meant that Ive been searching for ways to reduce my food spend and you know what? Eating organic doesnt have to be expensive, but it does take some dedication.

Ive realised that you might need to shop around, but if youre savvy and plan ahead, organic doesnt have to cost much more than a usual supermarket shop.

Buying reduced organic food in bulk and freezing can help save money. Image @GingeyBites.

Ive been hitting the reduced section hard. Organic meat is more expensive, and theres no getting away from that. Youre paying for farming techniques, smaller crops, lower yields, legislation and regulation. Ultimately, that organic stamp on your leg of lamb or chicken symbolises a better product. A tastier piece of meat that has come from an animal raised with higher welfare standards and on a farm which practices environmentally friendly farming techniques. Ive also found that some organic meat goes a lot further. A couple of richer sausages do the work of a packet in a stew, chicken breast dont shrivel into nothing in the pan.

Waitrose and Sainsburys usually have a decent range of organic meat, and this often ends up in the yellow sticker section, but youll really hit the jackpot if you visit your local organic supermarket or farm shop. Our Riverford veg box, with the addition of eggs and milk costs around 14.00 and for the amount of food we get, I dont think thats a lot of money.A quick tot-up on the Sainsburys website brings a similar non-organic shop to just under 9.00.

I appreciate that independent organic supermarkets dont exist everywhere. If youre lucky enough to live in Bristol, Brighton or London, for example, places like Better Food Co, HISBE and Planet Organic are your best friends.

If there is reduced price meat on offer, I buy the lot and stick it in the freezer. I do the same with vegetables. This requires a bit more time as you will need to cook them pretty soon after purchase.

If you can get your hands on a lot of one or two items, Id recommend cooking them into stews, soups and sauces and then freezing them. Aubergines and courgettes are perfect for vegetable curries, and pasta sauce with fresh tomatoes always tastes better than tinned. Think creatively leafy greens and root veg can be turned into stock. Freeze it in sandwich bags, jars or ice cube trays. Chillies freeze well too, as does milk and even cheese. There are so many things we can freeze. Did you know, for example, you can even freeze mashed potato?

Your shopping might take a little longer, and require some time in the kitchen to prep food into freezable states but if you have the time, its worth it for the satisfaction in knowing that youre able to shop organic even when money is tight.

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If you peruse the corners of the internet occupied by the alt-right, sometimes called the manosphere, youre likely to encounter a lot of references to ancient Greece and Rome.

Theres a fascination with Spartan culture and stoic philosophers and famous thinkers like Aristotle and Plato. The men who consume this stuff and yes, its almost exclusively men tend to believe two things: that ancient Greek and Roman culture are the basis of Western civilization and that these cultures are the exclusive achievements of white men.

But the idea isnt merely to celebrate these ancient cultures. The goal is to turn a phrase like Western civilization into code for white culture and to cement a narrative about history that glorifies patriarchy and undercuts cultural progressivism.

This, of course, isnt all that new. As I wrote back in 2018, the alt-right appropriates the philosopher Nietzsche in similar ways and for similar reasons. But the obsession with Greece and Rome seems to be more widespread, and perhaps even mainstream.

Donna Zuckerberg, editor-in-chief of Eidolon, an online Classics magazine, examines this trend in her book, Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age. I spoke to her recently about the appeal of ancient history to the alt-right, how its used to reinforce misogyny and racism, and why the field of Classics has a major problem on its hands.

A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

I think the best way to start is to have you explain why ancient Greece and Rome is so culturally significant to the alt-right.

Western civilization has, for the alt-right, become culturally acceptable code for white culture. So celebration of Western civilization is really a way to celebrate the cultural achievements of white men. They see ancient Greece and Rome as a starting point for this imagined idea of Western civilization, and later it evolves to include Christianity in the medieval period.

It gives them a unified cultural narrative to draw on.

So history is a device for glorifying masculinity and whiteness, both of which they take to be synonymous with Western civilization?

Exactly.

Part of whats so odd about the race dimension is that race as a category, or at least race as we think of it today, had almost no meaning in these ancient societies.

Right, ancient Greece and Rome were actually quite diverse and the concept of whiteness didnt have much meaning thousands of years ago. Race, as we know it, is a fairly recent category. But the far-right relies on this construct of Western civilization, which for them means white civilization and culture. So they craft a narrative that begins with Greece and Rome and then continues into the medieval period up through the emergence of modern Europe.

And what are the main themes you see beyond the usual white men are the most rational tropes? What specific conclusions are they drawing from history or what assumptions are they justifying?

They look to the ancient world for the confirmation of their pre-existing worldview, which is not necessarily easy to boil down to a few simple ideas the far-right, especially online, is intentionally malleable and difficult to pin down.

Most of its ideology depends on ideas taken from evolutionary psychology about normal, natural human behavior. So this includes ideas that men are naturally dominant and rational and women are emotional, along with a whole set of other ideas about gendered behavior (for example, the idea that women naturally want to marry up and thus are always looking for an alpha male).

But there are other ideas under this umbrella, too like tribalism, which they consider natural to human psychology and use to justify arguments for racism and against race mixing. They use whatever they can find to provide intellectual justification for these ideas, including history.

Theres also an obsession with cultural decline.

Why the obsession with decline?

The short answer is they want to predict what the future of America will look like, so they turn to these ancient cultures for patterns that reinforce their expectations. For instance, theres a strong belief that liberals are trying to create a chaotic multicultural society thats destined to fail; and the purity and patriarchy of ancient cultures, on their reading, is just a superior model, or at the very least, an argument in defense of their worldview.

Let me ask you this as a historian: Is there some validity to these arguments? In other words, are they projecting their own biases onto history or is their bias genuinely reflected back at them when they look at this history?

Both are true. On the one hand, their knowledge of ancient history and literature is often very shallow, and the scholar in me wants to interject by adding much more nuance and complexity to their awful interpretations.

But their analysis, in spite of being oversimplified and sometimes misleading, isnt necessarily fundamentally wrong. The fact is that many societies in classical antiquity were very patriarchal, and misogynistic ideas can be found in many canonical texts from ancient literature. So theyre not necessarily wrong to see, for example, misogyny in Ovids Ars Amatoria.

The question is how to interpret the text and how to decide what it means today.

Who are we talking about here? Is this mostly a marginalized internet phenomenon confined to incels and pick up artists or has this way of thinking, this way of interpreting history, become mainstream?

When I was writing Not All Dead White Men, I was looking primarily at online far-right communities. But Ive been surprised to see, in 2019, how much of the pushback against progressive Classical Studies has come not from the kind of people I studied, but from conservative and center-right intellectuals, who see progressive classicists as attacking the cultural heritage of Western civilization and trying to dismantle the canon.

It really has become a new skirmish in the culture wars.

But its also a problem for the actual discipline of Classics, right? There were reports of a racist incident at a Classics conference earlier this year, which speaks to how deep the rot goes.

Yes, absolutely. The incident you mention took place at the 2019 SCS in San Diego, the biggest Classics conference of the year. There was a lot of energy around progressive, antiracist Classics at that conference, which led to the formation of some new groups to promote the work of classicists of color.

But there were also several horrifying racist incidents, including the one you mentioned and one which involved the racial profiling of two students who were at the conference to receive an award for their incredible outreach work with the Sportula. In the aftermath of those incidents, there was a wave of harassment and backlash to progressive Classics led by sites like Quillette and The New Criterion.

My work in this book focuses on the reception of Classics in communities that are often vocally white supremacist. But the ties between racism and Classics exist in other places outside the internet. Theres a painful reckoning happening in Classics as a discipline as we try to confront our own complicity and do the hard work to make the study of Classics truly welcoming to all, not just a discipline where white men see their values reflected back at them.

Circling back to the way this stuff plays out online, the main goal of these alt-right types is to cement this idea that white men are the guardians of intellectual authority. But are they actually defending a tradition or are they just looking for a rhetorical club to beat women and people of color with?

I think its both. On the one hand, they do love that rhetorical club. But harassing people online actually takes a lot of effort, and having a real cause is extremely motivating. Defending their culture against those who want to destroy it provides that motivation. So this fixation on defending ancient history, defending this great civilizational legacy, is a very galvanizing force.

As I said in my interview with Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies, half the time I cant tell if these people are waging a genuine civilizational battle or just a heroic trolling campaign.

You seem to think its both.

I do think its both, and I think its very difficult to tell which it is at any moment. In the Daily Stormers Normies Guide to the Alt-Right, Andrew Anglin identifies one of the hallmarks of the alt-right as non-ironic Nazism masquerading as ironic Nazism. They want you to feel like youd be stupid to take them seriously, but also just as stupid maybe even more so to ignore them.

Its a very slippery but clever strategy, one thats perfectly adapted to modern internet culture.

People have always used history and philosophy to prop up their transgressive ideologies Whats your solution to the problem? Can we ever really stop people from weaponizing history?

No, we cant. We can provide alternatives, and continue to imagine new and different ways to think about what ancient Greece and Rome mean in the present day. And we can try to correct false information where we see it. Its a constant battle, but its an important one for any area of study to engage in.

We should always be thinking about what the study of our subject means and why its important.

I also wonder how much of this is a function of the way these internet platforms are designed and structured. How many people start off with a genuine interest in history and then find themselves pulled into a black hole of misogyny and racism and hate?

This idea haunts me. Again, I think all we can do is try to provide other content for people to find, which is part of what Im trying to do with my publication Eidolon.

You also point to a strange overlap between how the far-right and the far-left view the whole tradition of ancient philosophy Both sides see it as an affirmation of white male supremacy, only one wants to revive it and the other wants to replace it.

Im curious how you respond to the left on this front?

I dont think that anybody should feel obligated to study Classics. If your personal feeling is that it can never be more than white supremacist patriarchy re-inscribing its own values through the Western canon, then I completely understand why you wouldnt want to study it.

But if youre politically progressive and find Classics fascinating, then theres a lot of exciting work being done in the field to study that tension. I would point people in that direction and encourage them not to accept what theyve told about what history is or must be.

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