Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement

The Good Food Purchasing Policy: A Tool to Intertwine Worker Justice with a Sustainable Food System

“…Some see multiple movements rather than one (Holt-Giménez & Wang, 2011;Pollan, 2010). At times, those in the food movement "work at cross-purposes" (Pollan, 2010, para.…”

Lettuce learn: Student reflections on building and sustaining a community donation garden

“…These interrelated concerns for the emergency food system are situated in a scholar-activist and practitioner movement to advance social justice and raise awareness about a food system that is built on a neoliberal political economy, which rests on the belief that individual well-being is best realized when the free market operates without state intervention (Alkon, 2014). This political economy gave us pause to consider underlying economic structural issues such as inequitable resource ownership and distribution identified by the food sovereignty movement (Holt-Giménez & Wang, 2011;Jarosz, 2014 We may make do with the stopgap structure and function of the emergency food system, but it is not a viable path forward because it neglects issues underlying food injustice such as oppression and racism. In addition, the emergency food system reinforces a food system that is based solely on economics and production rather than people and the health of the environment.…”

“…Carrie: Apt critiques suggest that we produce the very conditions of injustice that we seek to overturn by propping up an emergency food system that serves as a tax deduction and waste disposal opportunity for wealthy agrifood corporations that "channel surplus food to low-income people of color" (Holt-Giménez & Wang, 2011).…”

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“…This point has been made frequently with regard to both specific strategies (e.g., direct sales and marketing), and broader movements to change the food system (cf. Allen et al 2003;Holt-Giménez and Wang 2011). Likewise, failure to examine the ways that conventional agrifood arrangements affect both the environment and people can perpetuate their negative impacts at multiple scales.…”