Why "Voting With Your Fork" Isn't Enough To Overhaul Our Food System

Last week on Grist.com, food editor Tom Philpott, who has the real-world farming experience to back up his opinions, lends the weight of his voice to a recent book and article by Heather Rogers. Their point? That no matter how many CSAs and farmer's markets crop up for customers willing to pay more for higher quality food, real change is being held back by the entrenched interests of the industrial agriculture system in America. They argue that food policy changes which level out the playing field for smaller sustainable and organic operations are needed to affect a real transformation, and as with recent efforts in finance and healthcare, reform will be fought with the overwhelming power that the Big Agriculture army currently wields.

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