Iron | Shirt
November 2010
6 posts
“Those who would reform the U.S. food system need to address the question of values that Limbaugh, Palin and others criticize as elitist. They need to consider the role that socioeconomics plays in determining those values and how to begin to change them. They have to make the case for why eating well matters at the local level, and that case will vary by community. In the Huntington area, residents spend $1.25 billion annually on food, but little of it stays in the region. Local food as economic development is a more persuasive argument in places where good jobs are scarce than is the do-the-right-thing mantra that echoes from both coasts. Good food is also at least part of the solution to the region’s health crisis: high rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.”
—Brent Cunningham and Jane Black - The new front in the culture wars: food (via Instapaper)
