Check Rachel Laudan's article from "The Gastronomical Reader" at Utne Reader.
"We need a culinary ethos that comes to terms with industrialized food."
"In Praise of Fast Food."
Page 2 in particular explains quite well why we tend to be loaded with ancestral beliefs that organic food is unclean, hard to get, and not as good as processed food, and might even hurt us. Oh - I don't agree with these beliefs, it's just that it has taken centuries to be able to have the luxury to mythologize and idealize all-natural agriculture. Now we just have to make it the "norm," not the exception.
Hey! And while you're at it, check out the shamanic workshop Jon Bredal and I are leading beginning in September:
The Delicious Life.
