January 3, 2013

What Is a Truly 'Worthy' Food Movement?

Steve Savage, Applied Mythology


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Back in October of 2012, author Michael Pollan wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times  in which he said the vote on California Proposition 37 would show whether or not the “Food Movement” had developed into “a movement worthy of the name.”

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