The politics of eating
- added July 11, 2008
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As a class, lower income people have been well represented in some of the best-covered food stories of our day, particularly hunger, obesity, and diabetes. As these issues have faded in and out of the public’s eye over the last 25 years, another food trend was rapidly becoming a national obsession—namely, local and organic.
At about the same time that Berkeley diva Alice Waters was first showing us how to bestow style and grace on something as ordinary as a local tomato, the Reagan administration’s anti-poor policies were driving an unprecedented number of people into soup kitchens and food banks. And as organic food advocates were putting the finishing touches on what was to become the first national standard for organic food, supermarket chains were nailing plywood across their city store windows bidding farewell to lower income America.
In low-income circles, however, such food anxieties got little traction. Between getting to a food store where the bananas weren’t black and having enough money to buy any food at all, low-income shoppers had little inclination to parse the differences between grass-fed and grass-finished. But this didn’t imply that their awareness of organic food was non-existent, nor did it mean that low-income consumers were less likely to buy organic if they had the chance.
Read the whole article. Very interesting points to make.
At about the same time that Berkeley diva Alice Waters was first showing us how to bestow style and grace on something as ordinary as a local tomato, the Reagan administration’s anti-poor policies were driving an unprecedented number of people into soup kitchens and food banks. And as organic food advocates were putting the finishing touches on what was to become the first national standard for organic food, supermarket chains were nailing plywood across their city store windows bidding farewell to lower income America.
In low-income circles, however, such food anxieties got little traction. Between getting to a food store where the bananas weren’t black and having enough money to buy any food at all, low-income shoppers had little inclination to parse the differences between grass-fed and grass-finished. But this didn’t imply that their awareness of organic food was non-existent, nor did it mean that low-income consumers were less likely to buy organic if they had the chance.
Read the whole article. Very interesting points to make.
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- HellaDelicious
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All true, but let us not forget that water and air pollution also affect our crops... DDT is global... And if companies like Monsanto have their way, people will continue to be manipulated purchasing poor nutritional foods... We need to buy seeds now, and grow locally... as organic as possible... Food banks, seed banks, community farming... Take back America's food production.
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Everyone likes to think that we have been progressing for some time.....I do not believe that is the case.....progress should be taking something and improving on it.....chemicals and hormones were introduced to chicken, turkey, beef......in the fifties.....there are girls in South America reaching puberty at seven to nine years old....all humans have a balance of male and female hormones....the balance in most people today is completely disrubted.....insecticides used worldwide are threatening the Bee population....Bees are so important to the natural cycle of all plant growth......so it seems we got on the wrong path many years ago....and have not turned back....pharmaceutical companies grabbed a hold and told you they could extend your life.....so now you have a longer.....sicker lifespan....that is progress.....there are some great things going on....I recommend you watch....You Are What You Eat.....on BBC America....or check out Gillian McKeith.com....this woman is helping so many eat right......Golden Ruler........Johnnie Hargrave...........
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