Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food

FOOD FIGHT

Such is the title of Charlotte Allen's op-ed piece in yesterday's Los Angeles Times wherein she opines

The most zealous of the spend-more crowd, however, are the food intellectuals who salivated, as it were, at a steep rise in the cost of groceries earlier this year, including such basics as milk and eggs. Some people might worry about the effect on recession-hit families of a 17% increase in the price of milk, but not Alice Waters, the food-activist owner of Berkeley's Chez Panisse restaurant, who shudders at the thought of sampling so much as a strawberry that hasn't been nourished by organic compost and picked that morning at a nearby farm— and thinks everyone else in America should shudder too. "Make a sacrifice on the cellphone or the third pair of Nike shoes," Waters airily informed the New York Times in April.

At the very least, Ms. Allen's argument caught the attention of NPR's Talk of the Nation.