Does being a foodie just mean that you give a shit?
This name-calling is a form of misdirection, an attempt to evade a serious debate about U.S. agricultural policies. And it gets the elitism charge precisely backward. America’s current system of food production — overly centralized and industrialized, overly controlled by a handful of companies, overly reliant on monocultures, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, chemical additives, genetically modified organisms, factory farms, government subsidies and fossil fuels — is profoundly undemocratic.
I do thing there is some elitism at play in the foodie movement, but I also think that the food industry would like it very much if people would stop asking questions and just shut up and eat.
