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Saturday, November 27, 2010

I thought this was interesting

Divided We Eat: As more of us indulge our passion for local, organic delicacies, a growing number of Americans don’t have enough nutritious food to eat. How we can bridge the gap.

It speaks of healthy vs. unhealthy food, class inequality, obesity, and other aspects of how food now signals a lot about what social class you're from than it used to.

My favourite quote from the article?
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.--Locavore writer Michael Pollan

Second favourite?
In America food has become the premier marker of social distinctions, that is to say—social class. It used to be clothing and fashion, but no longer, now that ‘luxury’ has become affordable and available to all.--Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, who has spent his career showing that Americans’ food choices correlate to social class

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