Fast Food

Looking on what my fellow bloggers have been saying, I now think that food justice is everyone's right to have healthy and nutritional food. All of the food industries such as mass production and fast food are really ruining the education of children's minds. I truly believe that everyone should have a right to the types of food that is healthy, even if they do not necessarily have enough money to purchase it. It is their given right to have decent food and have the ability to either raise it on their own or obtain it in some way.

"Education is perhaps the first line of offense in the long fight to change eating patterns and food distribution in any given neighborhood" (Food System Alternatives). I completely agree with this quote. If children are taught and raised a certain way, their eating habits will reflect that of their upbringing. For instance, if parents only eat fast food, then the children will most likely pick up those eating habits. Fast food is limiting the people who do not have enough money to buy fresh food. Fresh food these days are very easily accessed by the people that have enough money to go and buy them. The food rights to the people without enough money are really limited, which is why many of them resort to fast food because they will be getting more food to their dollar.

The cartoon posted with this basically shows that in a fast food restaurant there is no type of border or limit to how much (or what) people are allowed to buy. It also shows that there is no control over the diet of the food that goes into fast food chains. The chickens could really eat anything and still be sold to a fast food chain and consumed by consumers that really do not know what they are consuming.

--Amanda Lai