The Politics on Our Plate
Should we push away from globalized food production, or just keep digging in? July–August 2013
In April, the Literary Review of Canada and Diaspora Dialogues hosted the inaugural edition of the Spur festival in Toronto and Winnipeg. At one extremely lively Winnipeg session, locavore Sarah Elton met her rhetorical arch-nemesis, Pierre Desrochers, a dedicated globavore.
They waged a verbal battle over what each has called, respectively, our “destructive” large-scale farming practices and the “elitist” local food…