Food Unit Flashcards
Food Justice Definition
“A holistic and structural view of the food system that sees healthy food as a human right and addresses structural barriers to that right”
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Communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food
Food Justice Lens
“examines questions of access to healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food, as well as; ownership and control of land, credit, knowledge, technology, and other resources; the constituent labor of food production; what kind of food traditions are valued; how colonialism has affected the food system’s development and more”
Food Sovereignty
“People’s right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.”
Food Insecurity and Causes
Lack of food within households caused by Pandemics, climate crisis, agribusinesses (Monsanto & Purdue), low wages within jobs, foreign grown and imported food
Food Supply Chain Explanation - What is the market?
“Unfree market” - monopsony
A market structure in which a single buyer substantially controls the market as the major purchaser of goods.
Creates and reinforces poverty
Food Supply Chain Structure
Food Service, Super-Markets, Fast Food
Farmers, Distributors
Farm Workers
Cycle of Exploitable Labor
People being used in the means of gaining profit
Low wages, abuse of human rights, etc. for the benefit of a business
Creative Nonviolence as Restorative Justice
“A social justice strategy that the CIW has used to fight for, and win, with their fair food program. This program targets buyers, and not farmers, to agree to a code of conduct for the associated farms”
Anthropology of Food
A subdiscipline of cultural anthropology that explores the passage of food from plant to palate
Main Method Used and How?
Participant observation is the main method used to collect data
Helping with food getting, preparing ingredients, cooking, cleaning within a given culture
Importance of Anthropology of Food
Center of communal life. Saturated with meaning about identity and culture. Explains daily schedules, the divisions of labor among the sexes, interactions with the environment, and modes of cooperation and competition.
Holism
A theory and method used in cultural anthropology.
Recognizes that all aspects of culture are interconnected and influence one another
Holistic Perspective
try to explain and show these connections and influences through their work
Foodway
- Connect people to a geographic region, a climate, a period of time, an ethnic or religious group, and a family.
- Gain a better understanding of the people who prepared and ate the food during similar celebrations throughout time
- Intersection of food with culture and history is understood through the study of foodways.
- Include customs of food production, preservation, preparation, presentation, gathering, marketing (both buying and selling), uses of food products other than for eating, and food folklore.
Globalization
- Complex process of mutual imbrication, or overlap, of people, goods, technology, and services constantly move, blend, and create new meanings throughout the world
- Links people all over the world in a complex, yet largely invisible, chain of producers and consumers
