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Sunday, January 08, 2023

Wine Trickle, Too.

"SR: If we pick on any issue in the film it’s inequality. The progressive liberals in Napa just happen to be extremely rich. Their attitudes towards farm workers are more a function of class rather than party. You see multi-million dollar homes ringed by vineyards with people who can’t make a living wage and who live far away. There are Mexican farm workers everywhere, Latinos in every restaurant in Napa Valley, but they aren’t part of the narrative. It’s as if the narrative of Napa Valley wine can’t be cheapened by the notion that somebody poor contributed to it.

That to me is emblematic of the tremendous interest we have in food these days, where we take pictures of it. I was at a screening with Chef Jose Duarte, a well-known chef in Boston, and he was saying that in the six years he’s had the restaurant, he’s been asked every question: “Where was this pig raised? What kind of food did it eat? Where did this lettuce come from?” Nobody ever asked: “What were the conditions of the workers who slaughtered that pig?” When you look at the pinnacle of foodie culture that drives the foodie networks, that drives the “Top Chefs”—the question isn’t being asked. Which is unusual, because Alice Waters and Michael Pollan are passionate about food-worker rights. The elders of the food movement are all about labor, and it hasn’t trickled down yet."

~ Sanjay Rawal to Maddie Oatman

“'Food Chains' Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes" – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/food-chains-film-sanjay-rawal-tomatoes-immokalee/

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