Review of "From 'old school' to 'Farm-to-school': Neoliberalization from the ground up"

This article, by Patricia Allen and Julie Guthman from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California and Geology from the University of California at Berkeley respectively, talked about an option a lot of smaller farms may be taking in the future. They claim that local communities will grow their citizenship and local economies as well as improve the health of their children through FTS programs (Food-to-school). While they recognize that the programs are closely based on Neoliberal values thus encouraging such values in the participants (students, local community, and food workers) they see no problem with this.
 Actually the authors claim that "not only have FTS programs garnered wide-ranging support, it would be difficult to argue against them on principle." While I can agree the programs sound good in principle, (increasing local commerce interaction between the education systems, local farmers, local businesses, and restaurants as well as providing a better opportunity for children to get good nutrition, etc.) I don't really like this slightly cocky tone that shows itself throughout the article. It's not very professional. Later in the article they quote what I believe is probably an opponent of the system who essentially says that it's a great idea but the political climate and structure of local areas makes it an inefficient way to do business. The quote ends with the person saying the devil is in the details and they have a rather sassy remark that that is certainly not the case with this program and that the person leaving the remark was mistaken. Perhaps this article is taking it's place in a larger political conversation in California that I am unaware of, where this tone is not only necessarily but wanted, but it did not carry the neutrality I had hoped for from a scholarly article.

I would be interested to find out if anything like this is going on in any nearby local communities, mostly to see how they are handling the details. I know that an elementary school nearby has started a small garden, but that's not the same program the authors are talking about in this article.