Reply #46: Always I Love To See Something Progressives Worked 30 Years For Get Trashed on DU [View All]

[NashVegas]

By articles that paint a broad brush attacking ALL organics when it's the factory farms that are still, as always, the problem.

I don't know who TF Sarah Newman is, and I'm sure she means well but the fact she's written this column tells me to doubt she ever had a thought for organic foods before 1998 or so. Before Whole Foods and Wild Oats exploded and organics shoppers didn't depend on trendy websites to educate ourselves about where our food was coming from.

Food writer and activist Eric Schlosser, speaking at the Slow Food Nation conference in San Francisco last fall, said that he would rather eat a conventional tomato picked by well-treated workers than a local heirloom variety harvested by oppressed workers.

Fuck Schlosser. Slow Food in the USA is little more than a marketing gimmick. If Schlosser has evidence of organic farms mistreating workers, he should go after those farms, full-throttle, instead of smearing the whole movement.