Food
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At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
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Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
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People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.