Thursday, May 31, 2007

"Yuppie Chow"

"Organic food, taken over by big business, has become an assembly-line product marketed as 'yuppie chow' for the privileged, a Canadian researcher says.

Multinational food-processing giants such as ConAgra Foods, Cargill, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo now own most organic brands, Irena Knezevic of Toronto`s York University said in advance of a presentation she will make to social science scholars Friday.

While the food may meet organic standards, it is prepared, packaged, shipped and marketed in ways that are anathema to organic agriculture`s essence, which includes 'environmentalism, resistance to corporate globalization and the `back-to-the-land` movement, Knezevic said."

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Oh yeah, so everyone should just eat tons of pesticides to avoid having their food called "yuppie chow." What a ridiculous thing to say.