1. Using at least two different readings, explain how food justice is as much about capitalism as it is about community. 2. Using specific examples from Karyn Pilgrim’s essay, explain how consumption practices are gender ed.
Explain how food justice is as much about capitalism as it is about community
Please answer questions #1-3 in one full paragraph each, and question #4 in 2-3 paragraphs.
Firstly, using at least two different readings, explain how food justice is as much about capitalism as it is about community.
Secondly, using specific examples from Karyn Pilgrim’s essay, explain how consumption practices are gender ed.
Thirdly, using specific examples from Vandana Shiva’s chapter, explain bio nullius, and how this works to ruin farmers’ lives and livelihoods throughout the world.
Finally, how is food justice a feminist issue? How is food injustice an aspect of settler colonialism? Of racial capitalism? How is food justice also a part of disability justice and queer world-making? You can either choose to touch on all of these topics
Or write about one of the topics in more depth.
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Is Capitalism a Barrier to Food Justice?
Food First founder Eric Holt-Giménez argues in his new book that real food system change requires a radical restructuring of the public sphere.
No consumer, farmer, or activist participates in the food system without also participating in capitalism. To Eric Holt-Giménez, the director of Food First, this is a basic truth that’s too often overlooked in the struggle to change our broken food system. In his new book, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism, Holt-Giménez delineates the basic truths of capitalism and also how they are connected to the history of our food system. Part history book, part practical guide, the book links many of the injustices associate with food to other inequities, arguing that capitalism fuels and is fuel by oppression. If we better understand
“the rudiments of how capitalism operates,”
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