Article from Fair Food Fight, September 24, 2009

It’s a testament to Pollan’s wild success that the pushback against his books, opinions, and celebrity is sharpening and deepening. The In Defense of Farmers group in Madison, which is planning to counter Michael Pollan’s speach there, is probably the grassroots farmer-based group that it claims to be — and that’s going to make Pollan’s task more challenging in the months to come.

Because it’s one thing to write books for likeminded readers, or to persuade readers to become likeminded readers, and it’s another thing entirely to turn and face the industry that one has so matter-of-factly dismantled and discredited — not only in books (Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, etc), film appearances (Food Inc, King Corn, etc), and many NYT articles, but in the mass rejuvenation of the food and farming movement itself.

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