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The Multilevel Truth Behind Small Town America’s Latest Tea Obsession

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Founded in 1980, Herbalife employed the classic MLM model by signing up “independent distributors” who have two responsibilities: to sell the company’s protein powders and nutritional supplements, and to recruit others to become Herbalife distributors. I really loved the owner, she was really charismatic, and the shakes tasted really good.”

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Stone Barns Claims It’s Fixing Agriculture. Former Employees Say the Farm Was Plagued by Dysfunction.

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The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture opened in 2004 on 80 acres of rolling hills and verdant forest that were once part of the extensive Rockefeller family holdings in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills, New York. The farm is run by Jack Algiere, who was hired as the center’s first employee in 2003.

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The Boundary Pusher

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One of an emerging generation of culture hounds who took food seriously as a badge of cool, Meehan started his career working for Bittman, who helped him land a gig writing the New York Times ’s $25 and Under column in 2004, a plum position for an emerging food writer.