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Food Justice
Primer
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Food Justice
2 Definitions:
seeks to ensure that the
benefits and risks of where,
what, and how food is
grown, produced,
transported, distributed,
accessed and eaten
are shared fairly.
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Food Justice
3 Definitions:
represents a transformation
of the current food system,
including eliminating
disparities and inequities.
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Food Justice?
4 Definitions:
Food banks and food
charity are not food justice.
They are important but do
not address the causes of
food insecurity.
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Food Insecurity You cannot get healthy foods.
Definitions:
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You cannot store or prepare healthy foods.
6 Definitions:
Food Insecurity
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Food
Insecurity As depicted foods
available in your
neighborhood are junk
foods or fast foods.
7 Definitions:
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Food
Sovereignty
8 Definitions:
https://vimeo.com/27473286
People determine the kind
of food system they want,
as long as it is
ecologically sustainable. http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-
issues-mainmenu-27/food-sovereignty-and-trade-mainmenu-38
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Food Desert Neighborhoods with little or no access to large grocery stores that offer fresh and affordable foods.
Is this a good term?
9 Definitions:
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Food Desert?
• A desert is a vibrant ecosystem.
• Grocery stores are not a measure of food security.
• Intentional political and historical factors limit availability of healthy food in certain neighborhoods.
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Food Desert?
No.
A more accurate term:
Food Apartheid.
11 Definitions:
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Food
Apartheid: The intentional, systematic marketing and distribution of profitable, nutrient-poor, disease-causing foods to neighborhoods experiencing income challenges, mainly, communities of color (i.e. communities receiving the most food assistance dollars).
12 Definitions:
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Why Do Our Neighborhoods Experience
Food Apartheid?
IT'S PROFITABLE FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY.
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How we got
the food
system we
have. Industrial capitalism moved
people from rural to urban spaces. As fewer people grew their own food, the industrial food system gained control of food production.
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How we got the food
system we have.
To increase profit, the
Industrial Food System has
historically exploited
workers and brutalized
animals.
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Instead of relying on home-preserved and seasonal foods, people began to
rely on industrial preserved foods and refrigeration.
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How we got the food
system we have.
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Transportation systems and refrigeration allowed food to travel thousands of miles from where it is grown and/or processed. Chemicals extend shelf-life.
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How we got the food
system we have.
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Chemicals and fossil fuel
fertilizers came to
dominate agriculture
production after WWII.
http://www.texascenter.org
/almanac/Land/PESTICID
ESP1.HTML
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How we got the food
system we have.
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In Government
Corporate Influencers
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In Government 20 Corporate Influencers
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In Government 21 Corporate Influencers
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In Government
22 Corporate Influencers
Farm Subsidies 1995-2011 • Nationally
$277.3 billion
• Michigan
$4.61 billion
http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fip
s=26000
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In Government
23 Corporate Influencers
2014 Farm Bill • Gave $956 billion to
agribusiness.
• Cut $8.6 billion from food assistance programs.
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In Government
Corporate Influencers
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In the Media
$100 Billion+ in advertising dollars spent in the US annually.
$1.8 billion target children with unhealthy foods: TV, product placement, online, phones, school events & materials etc.
25 Corporate Influencers
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In schools and universities
26 Corporate Influencers
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Monopolization of food production.
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Corporate Influencers
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Corporate Influencers
Monopolization of food production.
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Corporate Influencers
On Non-profits.
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Corporate Influencers
http://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/AND_Corporate_Sponsorship_Report.pdf
On Healthcare.
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Monopolization of
food distribution.
31 Corporate Influencers
http://www.walmartsubsidywatch.org/
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32 Corporate Influencers
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On our health: • Obesity
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Cancer
• Insurance costs
• Poor Health
33 Corporate Influencers
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Food Justice “Food Justice asserts that food is
a right and no one should live
without enough food because of
economic constraints or social
inequalities. Food justice reframes
the lack of healthy food sources
in poor communities as a human rights issue.”
www.growingfoodandjustice.org
Definitions:
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7 Pillars of
Food Justice
1. Everyone has a RIGHT to healthy food.
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2. We must build a new global food system and "hospice out" the old.
7 Pillars of Food Justice
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3. Because multiple systems of oppression prevent food justice, we must do the work through an intersectional lens.
37 7 Pillars of Food Justice
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4. Food Justice work focuses on marginalized and vulnerable populations.
38 7 Pillars of Food Justice
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5. Food Justice works to eliminate exploitation of humans and animals.
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6. Food Justice preserves ecological biodiversity and promotes sustainability.
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7. Food Justice means sharing resources and skills that empower people to be more food self-sufficient.
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Practicing Food Justice
Southeast Area Farmers’ Market
Bulk Food Buying Group
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Practicing Food Justice
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Resources
Food First http://www.foodfirst.org/
Food & Water Watch http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Organic Consumers Association http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Via Campesina http://viacampesina.org/en/
Navdanya http://www.navdanya.org/
http://www.justfood.org/food-justice
http://www.albafarmers.org/
http://www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/home.html
http://casfs.ucsc.edu/
http://www.ciw-online.org/
http://www.growingpower.org/
http://knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom.com/
http://immigrantfarming.org/
http://www.nuestras-raices.org/
http://www.panna.org/
http://www.nativeharvest.com/
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OKT Food Justice Series The Farm Bill
What Is Food Justice?
Women of Color &Food Justice
Food Workers & a Living Wage
Food Justice & Climate Change
Food Justice & GMOs
Food Justice & Farmers’ Markets
Food Justice & Public Health
How to Save Seeds
Politics of Food
OKT offers these hand-outs copy-right free
at no charge at http://oktjustice.org/resources/okt-food-justice-series/
Resources