steestee’s Reviews > In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto > Status Update

“ food consists, not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.”

“ apparently it is easier, or at least more profitable, to change a disease of civilization into a lifestyle than it is to change the way that civilization eats.“

1) whole foods to refined
- wheat refinement technology
- nutritional value of wheat declines affects lower classes
- white wheat becomes nutritionally null status symbol for higher classes