The neoliberal diet and inequality in the United States

‘Neoliberal epidemics’ and public health: sometimes the world is less complicated than it appears

“…Recognising neoliberalism's multiple faces resolves the apparent contradiction noted in the editorial with respect to the idea of a neoliberal diet (Otero, Pechlaner, Liberman, & Gurcan, 2015). Rather than embodying contradictory perspectives on or definitions of neoliberalism, the neoliberal diet of inexpensive but ultra-processed commercial food products laden with ingredients that are damaging to health can be understood as at the same time, and with the relative importance of various influences depending on the specific context, a product of:…”

The Good Food Jobs Nexus: A Strategy for Promoting Health, Employment, and Economic Development

“…In the current system, improving the healthfulness of food usually means higher food prices, as does increasing pay and benefits for workers, since the costs of food and labor are two main drivers of food prices. As a result, healthier food produced by better-paid workers is often more available to better-off consumers, a trend that exacerbates the class and racial/ethnic inequalities in food insecurity and diet-related diseases (Otero, Pechlaner, Liberman, & Gürcan, 2015).…”

Review of Philip McMichael's Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

“…And how is such caloric inflation allocated among countries in the world economy? A class-diets perspective would come in handy here (Otero et al 2015).…”