In our September/October issue, Alex Perry revisited the story of John Allen Chau, a young missionary who sought to convert indigenous people living on a remote island in the Indian Ocean to Christianity ("The Island of No Return"). Rowan Jacobsen's online feature predicting the demise of the beef industry at the hands of "alt meat" provoked howls from carnivores and retorts from readers. I'm not much of a burger person; more of a pasta-with-red-wine person. [Extracted from the article]