Organic Industrial System [clipping]

This series of graphics, pulled from The Culture Kitchen and created by Dr. Phil Howard at Michigan State, show clearly the industrial takeover of organic produce.  I’ll let the images speak for themselves (click to investigate):

Corporate Acquisitions:

Corporate Creations:

“Independent” Companies (presumably started to sell and continue to only sell organics):

Proof positive for me that any social movement based in white, bourgeoius culture will inevitable be taken to corporate hierarchy, robbed of any revolutionary or realistically progressive power it once had.  Is organic frozen pizza and organic jelly beans really what we meant when we said “we want sustainable food now!”?

A classist said what?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/dining/02cheap.html?pagewanted=all

The current system, they argue, is almost completely reliant on petroleum for fertilizers and global transportation. It has led to consolidations of farms, environmentally unsound monoculture and, at the end of the line, a surplus of inexpensive food with questionable nutritional value. Organic products are not subsidized, which is one reason those products are more expensive.

How on EARTH can Pollan and Waters celebrate higher food prices?!

They suggest higher food prices come primarily from increasing fuel costs for trans- and intercontinental transportation of food. I do not see the logic of how higher food prices encourage people to buy more sustainable food. Most of the poor people they hope to stop buying cola are geographically excluded from any markets where these wealthy whites are buying their hip local food.

They should be FREAKING OUT that this country has maintained no respect for small, local farmers, and entirely degraded any transportation and social-networking system that provide for local food markets in lower-income districts. Alice Waters needs to get off her sustainability-priced-above-$50 wagon, and get back into the dirt to grow food for hungry people.

Good food, like good gardens, are not only meant for white upper-middle class Californians.