Comments on: “It’s not that we don’t care or understand, it’s that we’re poor.” http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/its-not-that-we-dont-care-or-understand-its-that-were-poor/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: nandalal rasiah http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/its-not-that-we-dont-care-or-understand-its-that-were-poor/#comment-257 nandalal rasiah Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:48:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3625#comment-257 Loved this post and the "prioritizing" one. So many wealthy people patronized Yogaville that it hid the permanent economic underclass--people who, in the outside world and occasionally even inside, would not have been able to afford the products and services favored by those well heeled patrons. In the popular discourse, before "organic," there was "natural." I worked in such a store in the people's republic of Charlottesville and not a week went by without someone walking up to the cheese section to complain about one item made with rennet or to the adjacent cafe to dispute the unstated provenance of our spirulina. It is for that reason I do not think that eliminating the subsidies and regulatory regime which favors the large-scale food production industry would decrease the amount of economic myopia in the population of yoga class-goers and organic food die-hards. I also hope there is serious push-back against this notion that eating 'conventional' produce is somehow worse for you--this yoga teacher unloaded some serious white man burden with those answers and it's sad that will likely never even be challenged by peers. Loved this post and the “prioritizing” one. So many wealthy people patronized Yogaville that it hid the permanent economic underclass–people who, in the outside world and occasionally even inside, would not have been able to afford the products and services favored by those well heeled patrons.

In the popular discourse, before “organic,” there was “natural.” I worked in such a store in the people’s republic of Charlottesville and not a week went by without someone walking up to the cheese section to complain about one item made with rennet or to the adjacent cafe to dispute the unstated provenance of our spirulina.

It is for that reason I do not think that eliminating the subsidies and regulatory regime which favors the large-scale food production industry would decrease the amount of economic myopia in the population of yoga class-goers and organic food die-hards.

I also hope there is serious push-back against this notion that eating ‘conventional’ produce is somehow worse for you–this yoga teacher unloaded some serious white man burden with those answers and it’s sad that will likely never even be challenged by peers.

]]>