Is the Onion a Fed Op? They seem to be calling us out quite hard here.
Eating local is like a tiny bit of what a food system revolution needs to focus on. It is crucial to more just and environmentally conscious food production, but on its own it does nothing.
Now, defending food sovereignty, land rights, nutrition rights and traditional Foodways in the face of the flattening of diets and the harm that capitalism does through our diets is not bourgeois, and Michael Pollan and Alice Waters can take their elitist asses home for co-opting and creating this bullshit bastardization of the food justice movement.