The Foodie Takeover of Environmentalism
27th March 2011
Food finickiness, in other words, is a luxury, not a mandate. Most people couldn’t indulge it even if they wanted to. Our friend keeps this in perspective. In recent years, however, the locavore, foodie lifestyle has transmogrified from what it obviously is—a luxury—into a quasi-spiritual ideology resembling late-stage environmentalism.
The truth is, if we abandoned industrialized farming and everyone adopted the locavore lifestyle, the human race would be much poorer, and several billion people wouldn’t have food.