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  How I got drafted into James McWilliams' anti-locavore diatribe 1

  Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

  It's happened a lot lately. Someone will send me the latest political diatribe that quotes my work. "What do you think of this guy?" they will ask. There's also a recent growth industry in academic essays in support of food movement icon, Michael Pollan. These essays pay tribute to him mostly by attacking my work and that of my UC Santa Cruz colleagues. The most annoying of these are people who are out there on the publicity circuit--those academics who have hired public relations folks to sell their new book--who use my work to defend simplistic and polarizing political points.

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  let's get (creatively) geeky about it

  Perhaps we should start by creatively using the tools the USDA already has for different goals.  For example, look at the Northeast Dairy Compact, which set a regional milk market policy for a region based on  "recognizing the cultural and economic benefits of a viable dairy industry in the region and facilitating the Constitutional rights of individual states to act collectively in order to regulate milk prices."

  Can we make a similar argument for regional food compacts, using state constitutional rights and agricultural marketing rights gained in the New Deal?  Can we apply dairy market order law to other forms of food localization?  

  I'm just throwing this out as a way for us to think about localization from a more national perspective.On Think locally, act infrastructurally posted 10 months ago 15 Responses

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  let's get (creatively) geeky about it

  Perhaps we should start by creatively using the tools the USDA already has for different goals.  For example, look at the Northeast Dairy Compact, which set a regional milk market policy for a region based on  "recognizing the cultural and economic benefits of a viable dairy industry in the region and facilitating the Constitutional rights of individual states to act collectively in order to regulate milk prices."

  Can we make a similar argument for regional food compacts, using state constitutional rights and agricultural marketing rights gained in the New Deal?  Can we apply dairy market order law to other forms of food localization?  

  I'm just throwing this out as a way for us to think about localization from a more national perspective.On Think Locally, Act Infrastructurally posted 10 months ago 14 Responses