Tatyana+Lee

**(Genealogy Approach)**
 * Access to Healthy Food through the Thorny Path of Capitalism **
 * What's it all about:**

Organic food consumption is one of several new trends in eating and an active opposition to industrialized food provision. Using a genealogy approach, this essay, first, will trace the history of non-organic food through a mainstream prism of industrialization and the emergence of the debate between those who believe that organic food is akin to healthy food (the “organic food camp”) and those who claim that health problems stem not from eating non-organic food but from an everyday lifestyle of each individual (the “non-organic food camp”). The second part will try to deviate from that history by showing that the emergence of non-organic food was also human necessity (e.g. to nourish growing population and prevent starvation), and not merely a vile conspiracy of big corporations. Further in this part, there is an attempt to reveal a real identity of those disputed camps, and also to show how the façade ideas of both camps disguise their genuine interests driven by the capitalist market. It also examines the issues of access to food and the influences people face when shopping for a healthy food basket. The major part of the analysis is based on polemics among agriculturists (e.g. Lord Northbourne), ecologists and environmentalists (e.g. Carson, Harvey), public health officials, and others. No human rights sentiments, no romantic story behind this essay, only sober reality. No peace/human-loving incentives, only personal/selfish interest. The driving force behind this essay is simple curiosity and an irresistible desire to figure out how organic food happens to be considered sort of privilege and access to that food is blocked by a “wallet-control” banner.


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