Stars: 2
Review by: Mandy Apgar
I saw a notice
for this on the Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap website and was
amazed when the owner admitted that she couldn't finish it. So I figured
I would try it. I do agree with that reviewer
(whose own book is stellar) on a few things - one should certainly care
about where their food comes from. The author went undercover of sorts
as a produce picker, Walmart stocker, and Applebee's employee to learn
about the mechanics of food production from
farm to table and why so many in this country are prone to obesity as
well as the increasing problem of "food deserts" - highly populated
areas that do not have proper access to places offering fresh and
healthy choices, thereby causing the residents to choose
the more calorie packed items and decreasing their health. I do also
agree that there were a lot of compelling truths to the book - but I
have worked in the field myself and frankly I think a lot of this also
is common sense (People pay migrant workers less
than minimum wage???? Restaurant meals are actually often microwaved?
Gasp!?!?!) which is a key problem in that I think it makes the author
seem a bit unsympathetic perhaps. She is an excellent writer yes- but
making obvious points and doing what she considers
slumming in jobs that for many are survival simply to in many ways to
demean those jobs to the very yuppies she decries at the same time,
well, her constant whines about poverty got really annoying really quick
considering why she was really doing her work.
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