[OKC] Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?

[Shauna Struby]

FYI - this was the lead story in the Sunday Business section of yesterday's
New York Times . the times (pun intended) indeed are changing.

 

March 22, 2009


Is a Food Revolution Now in Season? 


By ANDREW MARTIN
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/andrew_martin/
index.html?inline=nyt-per> 

ANAHEIM, Calif.

As tens of thousands of people recently strolled among booths of the
nation's largest organic and natural foods show here, munching on fair-trade
chocolate and sipping organic wine, a few dozen pioneers of the industry
sneaked off to an out-of-the-way conference room.

 

Although unit sales of organic food
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/organic_food
/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>  have leveled off and even declined
lately, versus a year earlier, the mood among those crowded into the
conference room was upbeat as they awaited a private screening of a
documentary called "Food Inc." - a withering critique of agribusiness and
industrially produced food.

 

They also gathered to relish their changing political fortunes, courtesy of
the Obama administration.

 

"This has never been just about business," said Gary Hirshberg, chief
executive of Stonyfield Farm, the maker of organic yogurt. "We are here to
change the world. We dreamt for decades of having this moment."

 

More here ::: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/business/22food.html?hp 

 

::: shauna lawyer struby

 

 

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