If we are to discuss the morality of food, foremost in our minds must be the ability of people (especially the poor) to eat.
Whatever else the modern food elite may say—their push for soda and Twinkie taxes, their promotion of local foods, their attempts to regulate processed and fast food, their aversion to biotechnology—their actions make it harder for the poor to meet the most basic necessity of fending off starvation.
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