Power List

So just who are the fifty most important and powerful people in food? Well, foodie website The Daily Meal, claiming “extensive research”, ticks off such names as Rachael Ray, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Martha Stewart, Michael Pollan, Ingrid Newkirk, Oprah Winfrey, Wolfgang Puck, Michelle Obama, and the American Consumer; who  at least made it onto the list. Several more big names are included in their listing, but one name is glaringly absent, the American Farmer. Which would leave any person of average intelligence to pose the question, where would all these people be without farmers to grow their food for them? And where on this list of important people are the volunteers who give of themselves at our nation’s food banks? Isn’t it appalling that television super stars, animal rights activists, and even mega box store CEOs made it onto a list of the most important people in food, but the very people who work to grow the food that Michael likes to complain about, Martha likes to decorate with, and Oprah likes to scarf are omitted. Guess that’s because it’s a list more about power than importance.