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"the corporate ultraprocessed food regime is a threat to our national economy and bodily purity."

who said it: an AfD parliamentarian or your fave food scholar?

Nova --> food purity politics --> gastronationalism

foodie horsehoe theory in the making

lots of american foodies, lefties, and policymakers sounding a lot like the AfD when it comes to food processing. not a good look.

dip.bundestag.de/drucksache/a...

‘Feed the People!’ Review: In Praise of the Supermarket Eating locally grown meat and vegetables is a nice aspiration, but it’s no way to get a satisfying meal in the winter.

“A worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food.”

Read the latest review of “Feed the People!” by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social:

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘Feed the People!’ Review: In Praise of the Supermarket Eating locally grown meat and vegetables is a nice aspiration, but it’s no way to get a satisfying meal in the winter.

"Feed the People! is a worthwhile corrective to a great deal of wrongheaded popular dogma about food."

Grateful for this generous - if not entirely uncritical - review in the Wall Street Journal today.

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I saw this. It hurts me.

As Mamdani starts planning the first city-owned grocery store while continuing to fight for food system worker justice, here's my pitch: do a New York City non-profit delivery app. Cut out Doordash and Uber Eats from the equation.

(Gabriel and I wrote about this idea in Feed the People!)

unforgivable chart crime. conflating two categories that are separated in the original data. just rank misinformation.
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The guy making these visualizations also pretty clearly has his own biases, and has a website design that includes a dude getting up too early on his surfboard and clearly missing a wave, which tells us something.

thanks for bringing the evidence! egregious chart crime. i also do wonder about the definitions of the constituent terms - like what is meant by "liberal" and "middle of the road".

also classical liberal and anything that starts with soc- are inherently different categories.

And I'm not suggesting just relying on anecdotes, but that spending any time on a college campus will show you that a) people's stated politics and actual politics differ among faculty just as among other citizens and b) that universities are far more diverse (and conservative).

Because there is no definition of what constitutes the terms - why would a "far left" (socialist?) be grouped alongside a liberal (classical liberal, ergo fundamentally very different from a socialist?) and how is that different from "middle of the road" (middle between what and what?). it's junk.

combining "far left" and "liberal" is just awful data viz. this chart tells you nothing. spend some time on a college campus and talk to some people.

electoral democracy, huh?

Real-world production data on cellular agriculture products (albeit at very small scale) starting to come out. Already beating or close to even with conventional meat production. Very interesting.

And there's an open lane for Democrats to align themselves with the rural economy if they want to take it, as @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social's new book showed. Republicans need to win rural America by like 40 points these days, cutting it down to 30 dooms them.

In a @newrepublic.com article, professor @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social explains how proposed food labeling that stigmatizes processed foods could lead to poor health outcomes.

There is room in my heart for many things to hate.

Right wingers will read your work and critique it on ideological ground. Lefties will not read of misread your work and then critique that on ideological grounds.

In this case, public education efforts like the proposed California Certified label are explicitly about differentiating categories of commodities, not "regimes," and as with any public health initiative we need to ask if it's appropriate to the task. Can't Marx your way to better labeling policy.

They just like simplistic, massifying framing like Nova because they can then wrap it in "it's systems not individual people or things" talk that gets likes on the internet but actually misinforms people about issues, like in this case public health.

You know what the most exploitative regime of accumulation in the food system is? The meat industry, which churns out Nova 1 "unprocessed" food.

Nothing I hate more than people masking knowing nothing about a subject with Marx-ish "aaakshually it's systemic, man" bullshit. This is exactly why using Nova as a political-economic critique leads to bad purity politics and not actual political-economic critique.

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the modern food system is that we have gotten so efficient at crop production that markets and policies have been created to divert crop production to massively inefficient ends (calories lost feeding animals or burned as fuel).

Half of all agricultural land is used not for human food but for animal feed, ethanol and other uses. Grossly environmentally destructive and inefficient.

New paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Thanks so much.

Are Big Companies, Not Locavorism, the Best Hope for American Food? Small, local growers have long been hailed as the way to improve food. But large companies have the scale to make a bigger impact.

A long, thoughtful review of Feed the People!

"At its core, the authors’ pitch comes down to access and sustainability: making sure people can afford better-quality food and that we don’t destroy the planet and the lives of workers along the way."

newrepublic.com/article/2084...

So what SHOULD we do? Ban things that are provably bad. And use consumer-facing information like labels to focus on the nutritional properties of individual foods (something like the Nutri-Score label in Europe).