by E. Melanie DuPuis
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Politics of the plate--and the page
How I got drafted into James McWilliams’ anti-locavore diatribe 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks 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.… Read More
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