I've ended up with the responsibility to write an article on the history of
counterculture food. As this is not my strength, I thought I'd ramble a bit and
ask for your comments-- positive and negative.

"Counterculture food" includes a wide group of individuals and groups opposed
to corporate agriculture, corporate manufacturing of food, perceived government
protection and subsidy of corporate food producers, and the globalization of
food in general.

Counterculture food groups have many divergent interests, but many cluster
around the following overlapping issue areas:

1. environmental and sustainability issues (organic gardening; family farm vs
factory farm, etc.);

2. health and nutrition issues (chemical additives, pesticides; junk food, fast
foods, obesity, etc.);

3. legal/political issues (labeling, approval processes, political power of
food companies, etc.);

4. ethical/moral issues (animal rights, vegetarianism, religion, humanitarian
matters, hunger and malnutrition, food advertising/promotion, etc.);

5. science/technology issues (GMOs, cloning, etc.);

6. globalization issues (NAFTA, WTO, EU, etc.).

What obvious issue areas have I left out?

Andy Smith