Four Reasons for Foodies to Occupy Wall Street

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For my regular readers who may have missed it, I had a longer piece on this website’s “Environment” channel laying out four main reasons that the Occupy Wall Street protests should focus on Big Food as much as Big Finance. It generated a fair amount of buzz last week, landing on the front pages of both Reddit and MetaFilter. Check it out.