Saturday, August 06, 2011

Messianic Hopes and Politics in the Food Movement



What is at the end of your fork? To ask this question is to plunge into a search for answers that are difficult to discover, but if discovered, leave most of us wishing we had never bothered asking in the first place. Ignorance can be, if not bliss, then at least something that doesn’t ruin lunch. Yet for even the most indifferent eaters, the realities of America’s food production system are increasingly difficult to avoid.

The story of how dangerous, unsustainable, and even immoral the production and consumption of food is in America represents one of the most significant emerging social narratives of the new millennium in the West.

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