local = elitist?

Long article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about how out of reach the sustainable food movement can be to anyone without lots of money. Opens with a story about a homeless couple coming to a Slow Food lunch that was a demo of food for low-income kids in public school lunches:

In a flash, an event volunteer was on the case, nervous in an endearingly liberal manner. “Sir,” she began. “This food is for the Child Nutrition Act.” And then she paused, searching for what to say next. I imagined her thinking: “Sir, this food is to raise awareness about the availability of sustainable food to the lower classes, not to be eaten by them,” or, “Sir, this good, healthy, local food is not for you.”