If it wasn't for her, it would of probably taken me a bit longer for me to understand that the trouble with too much of modern agriculture is about corporate power and the lack of food and land sovereignty, not the simplistic vegan/vegetarian fantasy I used to have back in my teens to early 20's. A real food justice movement has to have an honest look at class and corporate power, which has yet to really happen in the US that much just yet, I've noticed (it's why I tend to read the Marxist socialist sites when it comes to food issues than slow food ones). It doesn't help that the media just likes to focus on safe people like Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, not people who do real work.


ETA: That didn't come out right. Safe, as in, judging the masses for what they buy, which is all well and good for the ruling elites. I might elaborate more about what I mean in a month. But Pollan and Waters do have a white upper middle class elitism about them, Pollan especially, and my blood boils each time he calls the feminist and civil rights movement elitist in order to evade issues about the affordability of safe food.