So this whole anti-industrial-food movement really revved up while I was in the last year of my MA. I noticed the "Grown in Quebec!" signs appearing over veggies at the grocery store. Provided you find a good author, I doubt you need to read more than a book or two, or maybe a few articles on the topic. I recommend Michael Pollan, but there's Mark Bittman and others who are saying the same things. (Local eating, the problems with industrializing food, how animals are poorly treated in the process, how worker safety is compromised, food safety is compromised, and nutrition is compromised.)
But it's really gathering steam. While the popularity of the topic must in part be because of fuel costs, the books would have been written, accepted, and put into publication before this topic hit. So it's interesting to see the sheer of number of books out there.
I just hope this isn't a passing fad, but some sort of substantive change that will work its way through our societies. I think it's far more likely for these sorts of ideas to spread than for vegetarianism to spread. And for good reason--this sort of thinking is more practical and realistic than, say, veganism, and it's just as compassionate; this approach includes eating much less meat, which is all I've ever wanted.
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