“From-scratch influencers and right-wing politicians are, of course, not the same people. They operate on entirely different playing fields, yet both groups perpetuate an oversimplified notion of what it takes to eat in ways they deem acceptable and necessary,” writes Zara Seldon PO ‘29. “No, most people do not have enough time or enough money to “just make fresh bread a few times a week.” Yes, launching a campaign founded on the assumption that Americans in poverty could “just eat healthy” if they tried is unreasonable.”
