Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times

One of the better food related articles I've read in a while, but what is more interesting for our purposes is this useful and concise, though general, conception of ideology...

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times: "The first thing to understand about nutritionism ? I first encountered the term in the work of an Australian sociologist of science named Gyorgy Scrinis ? is that it is not quite the same as nutrition. As the ?ism? suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it?s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try."