“Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.”
-- Joel Salatin, “Rebel with a Cause: Foodie Elitism,” Flavor, June 14, 2010
Apropos of my last post, I just stumbled onto this article by farmer and author Joel Salatin, passionately defending sustainable food advocates against charges of elitism. Salatin argues - controversially, I'm sure - that consumers who care about what they feed themselves and their families may have to reallocate their spending priorities.
Salatin, whose books include Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food and Salad Bar Beef, also offers the provocative idea that more affluent foodies who care about reforming the food system should put their money where their mouths are and purchase CSA shares for underprivileged families. I like the concept, but I’m not aware of any structure that would make that kind of philanthropy possible on any significant scale. Worth thinking about though....
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10/14/2010
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I don't know about working on a significant scale, but Groundwork Lawrence's Share-a-Share program is helping to bring fresh, local food to increasing numbers of families in Lawrence, MA:
http://www.groundworklawrence.org/csa#share-a-share
Posted by: KarenW | 10/28/2010 at 08:26 PM