{"id":3749,"date":"2014-11-24T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:08:27","slug":"has-the-food-movements-moment-finally-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/has-the-food-movements-moment-finally-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Food Movement\u2019s Moment Finally Arrived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/food-movment-slate.jpg\" alt=\"food-movment-slate\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when you put Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan in a room with a couple of hundred well-heeled foodies\u2014and a few dozen conventional farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights had a bridge in Selma, Alabama, and gay rights had a bar in Greenwich Village. Last week, foodies made their stand at a former Rockefeller family dairy in New York\u2019s tony Westchester County. A group of more than 200 food activists, peppered with a few dozen conventional farmers, ranchers, and retailers, gathered at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture for a meeting organized by the New York Times to discuss the future of food. Their goal was to transform a trend into a full-fledged social and political movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2014\/11\/michael_pollan_and_mark_bittman_s_food_policy_proposal_at_the_stone_barns.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you put Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has the Food Movement\u2019s Moment Finally Arrived? &#8226; Andrew Lawler<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What happens when you put Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan in a room with a couple of hundred well-heeled foodies\u2014and a few dozen conventional farmers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2014\/11\/michael-pollan-and-mark-bittmans-food-policy-proposal-at-the-stone-barns-conference-on-the-future-of-food.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has the Food Movement\u2019s Moment Finally Arrived? 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