Comments on: Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist?

Comment on Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? by: Catee StClair

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:59:47 +0000

Ms Fisher I feel that you have many valid points such as supporting the local farmers. I feel that people should not Criticize others about nutrition if they are not educated i understand others have opinions but to personally attack people’s choices. Eating locally organic food has shown to decrease seasonal allergies as well as improve over all health. Thank you for commenting on this article in which the writer was not educated before writing her thoughts.

Comment on Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? by: Erin S. O’Connor » Blog Archive » links for 2006-05-25

Thu, 25 May 2006 23:18:10 +0000

[…] Tigers & Strawberries » Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? I think there are definitely elitists among farmer’s market shoppers, but obviously they all aren’t. (There seems to be a whole elitist connotation associated with the word “foodie” that goes along with this, too.) (tags: shopping food elitism writing) […]

Comment on Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? by: emma

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 15:59:59 +0000

As a brand new food blogger, I’m reluctant to get too far into the fray over Julie/Julia and Powell’s recent other writings, but as a writer by profession (as well as art), I have to say that Powell’s op-ed on organic food is based on a pretty faulty premise - there is certainly the suggestion that most organics are funneled through places like Whole Foods or Farmer’s Markets, venues that are often exclusionary by virtue of their location and that tend to deliberately target a certain “Real Simple”/”Organic Style” demographic (i.e. those shopping and buying for the image rather than the benefits, per se).

What Powell neglects to acknowledge - or at least properly explore - is the grassroots, communal aspects of organic farming and the very real social benefits of, for example, the Slow Food Movement (the international conference in Turin the other year offered a valuable forum for attendees from around the globe to share healthy, environmentally safe food, cultivation and farming concepts, techniques and ideas) and the vast, vast number of community-based organic farms and urban farming programs that are working to fill a much-needed hole in our welfare and social support services.

Crabtree Farm, based in Chattanooga,TN is an excellent example, working with the local downtown shelter to create a community organic garden. Residents tend the garden, learn to grow their own food AND learn to prepare it. The farm runs similar projects with troubled teens and underprivileged schools/students (www.crabtreefarms.org). This is hardly elitism and hardly snobbery. It is, however, the basis of what could possibly be one small solution to a growing problem.
I’m so glad to find other people tackling the same issues!
Emma
(from moderngirlskitchen.blogspot.com)

Comment on Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? by: Barbara Fisher

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 15:59:59 +0000

I don’t actually know much about Costco, having never been to one myself, Rose. We don’t have one near here in Athens–in fact, I am thinking that we don’t even have one in Columbus, Ohio. I could be wrong, but I have never run across one.

Mayhap I should do some research on it.

Comment on Does Eating Organically Produced Local Food Make Me Elitist? by: Rose

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 15:59:59 +0000

I think the comments on Ms. Powell’s generalizations of ‘food interested’ people are really quite valid.

After having read her op-ed piece, it seems quite clear to me that she does not articulate that there is a huge variety of people in this world who live out their lives in very different ways. This includes food bloggers. I hardly think my life is similar to other bloggers or that they have the same set of opinions. In fact, it’s our individual and unique experience with food (and life) that makes reading other people’s posts so INTERESTING to begin with.

On another note, this discussion on Walmart (which there are currently none near me in NYC–but some city officials would like to change that) got me thinking about another big box retailer, the wholesale clubs. Since they require membership many would not be able to afford, how does a company like Costco fit into all of this?

Does anyone have any info?