- ISBN-10:
- 026251866X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262518666
- Pub. Date:
- 01/25/2013
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- ISBN-10:
- 026251866X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262518666
- Pub. Date:
- 01/25/2013
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
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Overview
In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises has been a major contributor to an epidemic of “globesity.” To combat these inequities and excesses, a movement for food justice has emerged in recent years seeking to transform the food system from seed to table. In Food Justice, Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi tell the story of this emerging movement.
A food justice framework ensures that the benefits and risks of how food is grown and processed, transported, distributed, and consumed are shared equitably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe current efforts to change the system, including community gardens and farmer training in Holyoke, Massachusetts, youth empowerment through the Rethinkers in New Orleans, farm-to-school programs across the country, and the Los Angeles school system's elimination of sugary soft drinks from its cafeterias. And they tell how food activism has succeeded at the highest level: advocates waged a grassroots campaign that convinced the Obama White House to plant a vegetable garden. The first comprehensive inquiry into this emerging movement, Food Justice addresses the increasing disconnect between food and culture that has resulted from our highly industrialized food system.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518666 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 01/25/2013 |
| Series: | Food, Health, and the Environment |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Anupama Joshi is the Executive Director and Cofounder of the National Farm to School Network, a project of Tides Center (formerly based at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College).
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Series Foreword xvii
Introduction: Taking Root 1
Rethinking School Food in New Orleans 1
Defining Food Justice 4
Why a Book on Food Justice? 7
I An Unjust Food System 11
1 Growing and Producing Food 13
Slavery in the Fields 13
Farmworkers at the Margins 18
The Canary's Song: Chemicals in the Factories and on the Land 22
Turning Farms into Factories 27
Cows: "A Great Place to Live"? 30
Swine: Stench and Sludge 32
Chickens: The Tyson Way 35
2 Accessing Food 39
Grocery Gaps 39
Supersizing Supermarkets 43
Cars to Carts 46
The Tesco Invasion 48
Convenient Calorie Culture 51
Eating Out, Fast, Cheap, and More 55
3 Consuming Food 59
Dismantling Malbouffe 59
Downsizing Cooking 60
Health Not on the Label 65
Overfed but Poorly Nourished 68
Manipulating Food Choices 69
4 Food Politics 75
The People's Department 75
Farm Bill Debates 79
School Food Politics 87
Taming Hunger 91
Cultivating Change 96
5 The Food System Goes Global 99
Chinese Garlic in the United States, Potato Chips in China 99
Black Rice and Banana Republic 103
Going Global 106
Wal-Mex Takes Over 109
Globesity 111
Food Sovereignty: Global Struggles 114
II Food Justice Action and Strategies 121
6 Growing Justice 123
The Little Farm in Paper City 123
The Battles in the Fields 126
Immigrants Breaking Ground 134
Reinventing Farming 138
Urban Farmers 145
7 Forging New Food Routes 151
A Philadelphia Story 151
At Face Value 156
Farmers' Markets for All? 163
A Share in the Harvest: The CSA Model 167
Scaling Up: The Farm to School Program 171
8 Transforming the Food Experience 177
A Slow Food Epiphany 177
Going Local 179
Connecting with Food 186
A Place-Based Food Culture 190
9 A New Food Politics 197
Sowing the Seeds of CFP 197
Filling a Vacuum: Food Policy Councils 201
State Campaigns 206
School Food Revolution 210
Empowering the Hungry 215
10 An Emerging Movement 221
Eat the View 221
The Multiple Layers of Food Justice 223
The Change Agenda 231
Finding a Voice 233
Notes 239
Index 281
What People are Saying About This
Food Justice is exactly what is needed to understand what is happening in today's food movement. The book explains how movement participants advocate in different ways for a more ethical food system and examines dozens of groups working for change at the local, national, and international levels. It should inspire all of us to advocate for healthier diets for people and the planet, more humane treatment of farm animals, and more supportive policies for farmers, farm workers, and rural communities.
Food Justice is about who grows our food, how it is grown, where it is grown, who gets to eat, and the pleasure and celebration of eating food that is good food, clean food, fair food. Food Justice tells us that growing and eating food are political acts that challenge a system that is neither good, nor clean, nor fair. Read it!
Food Justice is exactly what is needed to understand what is happening in today's food movement. The book explains how movement participants advocate in different ways for a more ethical food system and examines dozens of groups working for change at the local, national, and international levels. It should inspire all of us to advocate for healthier diets for people and the planet, more humane treatment of farm animals, and more supportive policies for farmers, farm workers, and rural communities.
—Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, author of Food Politics
An important contribution to the food policy literature that comes at a critical moment in the food justice movement. Gottlieb and Joshi pull no punches. Their point of view, that the dominant agroindustrial food system is inherently unjust to farm workers, consumers (including our children), and the communities that suffer from the external costs of food production, comes through loud and clear.
—Nevin Cohen, Eugene Lang College, New School for Liberal ArtsFood Justice is about who grows our food, how it is grown, where it is grown, who gets to eat, and the pleasure and celebration of eating food that is good food, clean food, fair food. Food Justice tells us that growing and eating food are political acts that challenge a system that is neither good, nor clean, nor fair. Read it!
—Carlo Petrini, founder, Slow Food InternationalFood Justice is exactly what is needed to understand what is happening in today's food movement. The book explains how movement participants advocate in different ways for a more ethical food system and examines dozens of groups working for change at the local, national, and international levels. It should inspire all of us to advocate for healthier diets for people and the planet, more humane treatment of farm animals, and more supportive policies for farmers, farm workers, and rural communities.
—Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, author of Food PoliticsAn important contribution to the food policy literature that comes at a critical moment in the food justice movement. Gottlieb and Joshi pull no punches. Their point of view, that the dominant agroindustrial food system is inherently unjust to farm workers, consumers (including our children), and the communities that suffer from the external costs of food production, comes through loud and clear.