A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Given the rest of his article, I assume that Pollan intends his presumptive title for the President of the United States–farmer in chief–to contrast with the traditional role of Commander in Chief. And in offering the alternative, I assume he intends to set the productive, peaceful, domestic world of farming and food against the [...]
OK. Here’s what I am going to do. Michael Pollan had thirteen printed pages for his Farmer in Chief article in the New York Times Magazine. I can’t churn out a response of that length all at once even if you wanted to read it. So I am going to tackle [...]
Read: Thinking Through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: Preliminaries
That’s one of Adam Balic’s many useful comments on my earlier posting, “Is organic the right way to go?” I’ve got to start somewhere so why not here.
And, clearly, what is meant by organic is hugely confused. There are, as Diana Buja and Ji-Young Park point out in their comments, huge areas of [...]
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