Why does Alice Waters inspire such animosity?

Alice Waters is known worldwide for her unbending fidelity to locally grown food and organic agriculture. When she championed local farmers and put their names on the menu, restaurants across the country followed suit. She replaced iceberg lettuce with field greens, and shoppers flocked to farmers markets for arugula and chicory. She insisted on grass-fed beef, and now it's on menus everywhere.

"She has fundamentally changed how people in this country understand food," said Daniel Patterson, owner of Coi, one of San Francisco's culinary lights. Why, then, does she inspire such animosity? Read more here:

Photo: Alice Waters, right, founder of Chez Panisse, chats with instructor Esther Cook in an Edible Schoolyard class at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley. Students grow and prepare food as part of the curriculum, and Waters believes it teaches lifelong lessons in nutrition. Credit: Tomas Ovalle / For The Times

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[Leigh Adcock]

Read More Here link doesn't work for me.

[Bill]

Eat local, says Alice.
But, ship your live chicks weekly from Pennsylvania?

Where is the BSPCC (Berkeley Society For The Prevention
Of Cruelty To Chickens) when we need them?

All things considered, W.C. Fields would love it.
Alice is in Wonderland on this one.