Food justice
By: Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
Contributors: Joshi, Anupama
Edition: 1st MIT Press paperback ed.
Series: Food, health, and the environment
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780262518666
Subjects: Nachhaltigkeit; Sustainable agriculture; Ackerbau; Ernährungssicherstellung; Environmental aspects; Livsmedelsindustri; Lebensmittel; Verkauf; Miljöaspekter; Lantbruk; Agriculture; Moral and ethical aspects; Etik och moral; Grocery trade; Food; Marketing; Produktion; Lebensmittelindustrie; Hållbart jordbruk; Food industry and trade
Description: "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 Anupana 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 consumes are shared equitably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe current efforts to change the system. 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"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Taking root : Rethinking school food in New Orleans ; Defining food justice ; Why a book on food justice?; title: 1. An unjust food system : Growing and producing food : Slavery in the fields ; Farmworkers at tech margins ; The canary's song: chemicals in the factories and on the land ; Turning farms into factories ; Cows: "a great place to live?" ; Swine: stench and sludge ; Chickens: the Tyson way; title: Accessing food : Grocery caps ; Supersizing supermarkets ; Cars to carts ; The Tesco invasion ; Convenient calorie culture ; Eating out, fast, cheap, and more; title: Consuming food : Dismantling Malbouffe ; Downsizing cooking ; Health not on the label ; Overfed but poorly nourished ; Manipulating food choices; title: Food politics : The people's department ; Farm bill debates ; School food politics ; Taming hunger ; Cultivating change; title: The food system goes global : Chinese garlic in the United States, potato chips in China ; Black rice and banana republic ; Going global ; Wal-Mex takes over ; Globesity ; Food sovereignty: global struggles; title: Food justice: action and strategies : Growing justice : The little farm in paper city ; The battles in the fields ; Immigrants breaking ground ; Reinventing farming ; Urban farmers; title: Forging new food routes : A Philadelphia story ; At face value ; Farmers' markets for all? ; A share in the harvest: the CSA model ; Scaling up: the farm to school program; title: Transforming the food experience : A slow food epiphany ; Going local ; Connecting with food ; A place-based culture; title: A new food politics : Sowing the seeds of CFP ; Filling a vacuum: food policy councils ; State campaign ; School food revolution ; Empowering the hungry; title: An emerging movement : Eat the view ; The multiple layers of food justice ; The change agenda ; Finding a voice.