The Narthex
Food Gentrification and Food Substitution
On living to eat rather than eating to live, and eating bugs for the sake of 'the planet'
By John M. Grondelski | September 24th 2025 12:21 PMI recently wrote about how what were once considered food waste products have increasingly hit the grocery market. My inspiration was last Sunday’s First Reading, in which the prophet Amos excoriated the commercial cheats of ancient Israel, specifically, his comment about selling “the refuse of the wheat” as food. But…
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