Constructing a Community Food Economy

Gross, Joan

doi:10.1080/07409710.2011.599775

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“…Avery said, "I can't afford to buy organic at Safeway but I can afford to take organics out of the organics bins." Diving helps some people expand their diets beyond what Michael Pollan has called "edible food-like substances" (Pollan 2008) and the common "commodity" foods that Gross (2011) describes. By diving, Avery accesses foods typically associated with elite socio-economic status.…”

Section: Eating Better Foodmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Diving is a symbolic and literal act of not buying into agribusiness giants like Monsanto, whose models are seen as the enemy of sustainability and social justice. Monocropping, increasing reliance on imports, heavy pesticide use, consolidation of profit and power to agri-business, and disempowerment of farmers and individuals have been cited as some of the characteristics of our global food system that assault social and environmental sustainability (e.g., Gross 2011). Gnarley offered insight on this perspective:…”

Section: Eating Better Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Motivations for Dumpster Diving in Vancouver 247 In this system, the central value of food lies in its potential to produce profit rather than its ability to sustain life (Gross 2011). Power over food is increasingly concentrated in the hands of international corporations such as agro-chemical companies and food retailers, who prioritize efficient market functioning over the right to food (Konefal, Mascarenhas, and Hatanaka 2005).…”

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“…By design we mean that our global system is designed to produce not only edible food and foodstuffs but also to produce waste as a system by-product and externality. Agriculture and food are embedded in a global capitalist economy in which industrial, intensive, agri-food technologies dominate (see Gross 2011;Lang and Heasman 2004) and the "business" of the dominant food system is making money. Mechanized systems, expanded global markets, and food networks produce and move huge amounts of food around the world in very short periods of time.…”

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Beyond Desperation: Motivations for Dumpster™ Diving for Food in Vancouver

Carolsfeld

Erikson

2013

Food and Foodways

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In the global food system, food is considered a disposable commodity and waste is produced at extraordinarily high levels. In a number of affluent nations, including Canada, "dumpster diving" for food has emerged as an approach to food provisioning. This article is based on a research project conducted for an honors thesis that examines dumpster diving for food in Vancouver, British Columbia. While an earlier report (Miewald 2009) identified dumpster diving in Vancouver as a survival strategy for people living in poverty who experience food insecurity, research for this article reveals that motivations also extend beyond economic desperation. The data contest some common assumptions and provide explanations of people's motivations and their means of "dumpstering" in the Vancouver locale. As such, the article reveals divers' broader political, social, and economic motivations in a specific locale, enabling an exploration of some systemic contradictions of food production, distribution, provisioning, and consumption.This article explains Dumpster TM1 diving for food in Vancouver, British Columbia, and why people do it. Diving has emerged as a food provisioning practice occurring in affluent urban centers, including Canada. 2 People who provision food from dumpsters-dumpster "divers"-have transformed their own behaviors-their foodways-to take advantage of an opportunity that our global food system creates: massive levels of food waste, some of which ends up in waste receptacles referred to in North America as dumpsters.We wish to thank the dumpster divers and everyone else who shared their views, experiences, stories, and food with us.

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Section: Eating Better Foodmentioning

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Beyond Desperation: Motivations for Dumpster™ Diving for Food in Vancouver

Carolsfeld

Erikson

2013

Food and Foodways

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“…Second, this vision of critical food pedagogies would involve disrupting the discourse of food as a commodity and instead positioning food as a human right and both a physiologically and culturally nourishing life good (Knezevic, 2012;Wiebe, 2012). In this way, critical food pedagogies would challenge the anonymity and commodification associated with an industrial food system in favor of a community food economy that lessens the distance between producers and consumers (Gross, 2011). This would involve the creation of counter-hegemonic possibilities within the food system, such as farmers' markets, community gardens, urban agriculture, community supported agriculture, school gardens, food co-operatives, and food-based education (Barndt, 2012).…”

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Obscuring the Veil

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2020

CanFoodStudies

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Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States. The paper discusses the socio-ecological implications of the animal-industrial complex and employs a critical discourse analysis to examine how advertisements for animal products and by-products function as sites of public pedagogy to obscure these adverse effects. Finally, this paper outlines a vision of critical food pedagogies that both ‘removes the veil’ (Hudson & Hudson, 2003) and addresses the underlying generative framework that drives our relationship with an industrial food system

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