food (thesis?)

n Twitter and TikTok over the past few weeks, scores of users have become alarmed about the uncomfortable coziness between the natural-food-and-body community and white-power and militant-right online spaces—the “crunchy-to-alt-right pipeline.”

Populism, which is characterized by a focus on the concerns of ordinary people, has led to a renewed interest in local, traditional, and organic food. Many populist leaders have embraced a “food sovereignty” approach, which seeks to promote the interests of small-scale farmers and local communities over those of large corporations. This has led to... See more

Crunchy , coined as a pop-culture reference to granola, has come to refer to a wide variety of cultural practices, including avoiding additives and food dyes, declining or spacing out childhood vaccinations beyond what pediatricians recommend, and more extreme actions in pursuit of health, independence, and purity. Back-to-the-land living and... See more

He pointed specifically to an approach to food that asks what an ingredient does for the body, but neglects the process of the ingredient’s production

The central premise of this years’ DGA is to “ Eat Real Food,” a recommendation with a premise we can get behind.

The means to the end is not a concern. Even if cloaked in language that mimics the regenerative movement and a connection between land and consumer, the nutrition guidelines do not consider the process by which food makes its way to the plate, nor its potential environmental effects.

The idea is to use supreme values of the species (health, equity, respect for the environment, etc.) as the drivers of mobilization. The proposal must also contain emotional elements as well as democratization demands in defense of food sovereignty and all that this entails. In this sense, almost 99% of the population is potentially against the... See more

Beginning in the ’70s, the alternative-lifestyle publication Mother Earth News ran articles on organic gardening and other issues championed by the left. Though the publication itself was not an organ of the white power movement, and indeed often espoused leftist positions, in at least one high-profile case, white power activists used its... See more

Overall, it is possible to interpret the positive connections between new populism and food as a reaction to the shortcomings of industrial agriculture and the world food system. As the detrimental effects of industrial agriculture have come to light, many people have lost faith in the status quo political structure and resorted to new populist... See more