Well, now doesn't that say something

Former National Review writer Rod Dreher has a book out, which is either about him alone, or perhaps a larger segment of "conservatives" which he calls "crunchy cons" who share a love of organic food and the earth which provides with liberals. The book may be interesting, though I also think I could easily end up vomiting reading about how people who care about food quality and the environment can support the GOP. But what gets me is this bit from a review of the book:

"Ewww, that's so lefty," Dreher's editor at his old National Review job sneered when Dreher said he was picking up some locally grown organic produce.

So, it's not just liberal, but apparently irredeemably liberal, to be supporting the labor of one's farmer neighbors? Does something about the food's purity not being sullied by lustful, amoral chemicals so denigrate the toil of these otherwise paragons of the "backbone of America" that helping them to loosen themselves from the surly bonds of excessive taxation is no longer a valid conservative act, and in fact calls for derision? Do farmers have to get the Archer Daniels Midland seal of approval before Republicans consider their produce Kosher?

Nice to know where the right-wing's priorities lay.