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Pollan in the New York Review of Books …

[In the 80’s] Washington had succeeded in eliminating food as a political issue—an objective dear to most governments at least since the time of the French Revolution. But although cheap food is good politics, it turns out there are significant costs—to the environment, to public health, to the public purse, even to the culture—and as these became impossible to ignore in recent years, food has come back into view

Pollan reviews “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front” by Joel Salatin, “All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?” by Joel Berg, “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities” by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters, and “The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society” by Janet A. Flammang .. read more