Our food system is ripe for change | Local News | The Seattle Times
“I think that there needs to be a deeper discussion of the structural issues around our dysfunctional food system,” she said. What’s wrong is “deregulation, consolidation and control of the food supply by a few powerful companies.” That is not going to be fixed by a few more people shopping at the farmers market or by arguing over farm subsidies.
“It’s a great thing to vote with the fork, but we need to vote with the vote and keep the people we vote for accountable,” Hauter said.
There are a gazillion books on food and the food supply, but her book isn’t the dessert at the end of the line, it’s an eat-your-vegetables textbook on the political and financial history, current condition and possible future of food in America. It says this on the cover: “The battle over the future of food and farming in America.”
Battles over farm policy have raged at various times in the country’s history, and Hauter, an anthropologist by training, draws on the work of experts from numerous other fields to cover the history, politics, science and economics of food.
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