THE headlines about food this year read like a remarkable replay of Woody Allen’s “Sleeper,� in which the things Americans think they should eat more of — lettuce and spinach — were suddenly the ones that could make them sick, or even kill them...
Yet critics of American agribusiness, like Marion Nestle, a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, and the author of “What to Eat,� see an upside to all the bad news.
“This is the year everyone discovered that food is about politics and people can do something about it,� she said. “In a world in which people feel more and more distant from global forces that control their lives, they can do something by, as the British put it, ‘voting with your trolley,’ their word for shopping cart...�
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You Are What You Eat: 2006 and the Politics of Food
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By MARIAN BURROS
The New York Times, 12.27.06
Straight to the Source
