Corporate=Bad

I thought Food Justice was where corporate industries and factories make food in a way that makes more money than in a way that is more nutritional. The factories mass produce and then sell the food to the world without the world knowing exactly what they are intaking in their daily diets.

According to the website: http://www.wisebread.com/the-dirty-secrets-of-food-processing-strong-stomach-required. It states that cereal is made through an extruding process. I am a definite cereal lover, but I didn't know how cereal was made at all and how unhealthy that it can be. They did a test on rats with this cereal and the results were insanely creepy.

"The rats given the vitamins, water and all the puffed wheat they wanted died within two weeks- even before the rats that got no food at all. Autopsy results revealed dysfunction of the pancreas, liver and kidneys and degeneration of the nerves of the spine, all signs of insulin shock. That was just one test."


Milk is much better when it is in its raw form directly from a cow. It loses all it's nutrition once it is processed. There are so many different effects to the human body from consuming these mass produced products made.

Amanda Lai

What is Food Justice?

So being in Anthro class, my first impression of what food justice is was that it had to do with how foods like wild rice were being bio-pirated from Indigenous and other groups of people. These people have had decades of TEK about their crops, and now companies are trying to patent them, saying that these crops are their property. Most of you probably agree to hearing this in a few of the past lectures.

Now after googling the definition of Food Justice, I found that most of the websites on the first page had the same definition of what Food Justice was.

http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery/why-we-call-it-food-justice
http://foodjustice.org/wp/index.php
http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/what_is_food_justice.aspx
http://media.www.thepolypost.com/media/storage/paper1127/news/2006/11/21/News/Panel.Discusses.Food.Justice-2506057.shtml

Quoting from the second link posted, "Food justice is the concept that society should arrange its relationships so everyone can have sufficient food." Basically it is saying that when we have food justice, everybody is getting a fair share of food and water, and that there is no starvation in the world.

With myself having two views that may fall under the same category, what do you guys think Food Justice is?

Food Justice: A Growing Movement Video

Food Justice: A Growing Movement Video

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First blog post! The video link above really helps to explain food justice from many different point of views. In reality, food justice is just having access to sustainable healthy food. This includes sustainable farming or having your own vegetable garden. The enemies to sustainable farming are the big corporate farms that mass plant. These plants are then sprayed with chemical and pesticides and often injected with substances so that their color is bright. These tactics are motivated by making profits. The problem with this is that it destroys the soils of vast pieces of land. Erosion is a very common result of this type of careless planting. The soil is very often robbed of the minerals that make it fertile. The result of this is useless soil. The corporate farms are also chocking out the little farms that are privately owned. This destroys the biodiversity of the food we eat and it destroys many people's source of subsistence. To support sustainable farming, one should support local farms and teach young people the tactics of sustainable farming. The tactics that should be taught are widely known from the understanding of TEK, or traditional environmental knowledge. The land just can't be planted and used whenever people would like. It has to be respected. The land has to be listened to. I think that people are in too much of a hurry to make a quick buck to take the time to learn how the land should be treated. Maybe we can brainstorm some solutions to this problem while blogging. I just can't see an obvious answer to this problem.
-Seneca Luetke