NYTimes Opinion: To appreciate the depth of our national political divide, look no further than our Thanksgiving tables. The organic turkeys and farmers’ market produce of coastal urbanites face off against the frozen Butterballs and rich gravies of our rural interior, each side equally contemptuous of the other. Or so it might seem.
But as climate change begins to take its toll on farm country, this geopolitics of “alternative” and “traditional” food is changing. These days, the call to change our food system is coming straight from the heart of red-state America.
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