A lot of this article smells like bullshit to me, but anecdotally speaking, I do think that there is something very wrong with the US food system.
I was in Russia a few years ago and I remember that basically all the food I ate at my relatives' rural town was remarkably, stunningly better than even the best locally grown farmer's market food that I have ever been able to find in the US. It practically radiated goodness.
Now, part of this might be because of childhood nostalgia or some genetic factor that predisposes me to the food of my homeland. But I think I can tell that most of it is not nostalgia. That Russian food I ate in that rural town really was much better than anything I've ever found in the US.
Which is remarkable given that Russia practices the same sort of massive highly technological agriculture that the US does, it is not like when I was there I was eating the products of some small farmstead.
I was in Russia a few years ago and I remember that basically all the food I ate at my relatives' rural town was remarkably, stunningly better than even the best locally grown farmer's market food that I have ever been able to find in the US. It practically radiated goodness.
Now, part of this might be because of childhood nostalgia or some genetic factor that predisposes me to the food of my homeland. But I think I can tell that most of it is not nostalgia. That Russian food I ate in that rural town really was much better than anything I've ever found in the US.
Which is remarkable given that Russia practices the same sort of massive highly technological agriculture that the US does, it is not like when I was there I was eating the products of some small farmstead.