Bipartisan food reform
Conservatives embrace better food
By Culinate staff
August 15, 2008
The magazine The American Conservative recently put food reform on its cover, arguing that — despite what you might think of all those liberal hippies shopping at farmers’ markets and growing their own food — fixing our food system is really a conservative cause. And why not? After all, the better-food movement is essentially traditionalist, calling for old ways over new ways, heritage foods over GMO grub, and independent food production over centralized industry. Quibbles? The American Conservative doesn’t care much about food justice.
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1. by JudithK on Sep 11, 2008 at 9:57 AM PDT
You state: “the better food movement is essentially traditionalist”. I’m asking, “what do you mean by that?”
After reading the article, I’m completely confused. Was the point of the article to simply afix the label of “conservative” on the food activism movement? Is the author a born-again liberal?
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