Environmental Justice: Food

The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.

Essays on the intersections between the school to prison pipeline, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

Addresses key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States, including justice-related issues facing farmers and laborers on farms; how history and policy have impacted them; and the opportunities and leverage points for change in improving justice outcomes.

An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates and the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.

Explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.

Analyzes and challenges the ways in which “metabolic syndrome” has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people.