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QuoteDan Barber is one of the nation's most widely respected slow-food advocates: His Blue Hill restaurants in New York serve a cornucopia of goodies from nearby farms like Cherry Lane, Herondale, and Mountain Sweet Berry.
So it was discombobulating when the chef lobbed this moldy potato during this week's CityLab summit in L.A.: The farm-to-table movement "does not really work."
How's that? Well, despite the rising popularity of locally sourced, small-grower ingredients, America lost nearly 100,000 farms in the last five years, according to the U.S. Census. And the mega-conglomerates that dominate the food industry are only growing more powerful, Barber said: "The top 1 percent of farms now account for almost half of the value of all farm sales."
Full article: http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/09/famous-slow-food-chef-says-farm-to-table-doesnt-really-work/380929/