Heritage in Danger or Mission Accomplished?

What is it about?

This article takes a cultural studies approach to the topic of heritage vegetables and seeds and explores an intriguing difference between lifestyle media articles and other kinds of text which tell the story of heirloom or heritage vegetables and seeds. While most kinds of text talk of a lost golden age of diversity and plenty, followed by loss and risk in the modern era, the lifestyle texts seem almost to shift forward in time, so that loss is in the past and we are entering a new age of rejuvenated diversity in our food crops. The article argues that these differences have important consequences for who gets to use and profit from food heritage as a resource.

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