Review of Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi's Food Justice

摘要

ANALYZING LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL organizing for food justice, this book exemplifies the meaning and results of participatory action research (PAR), for food justice, a component of environmental justice, can only be understood through direct engagement. The study demonstrates iterative participatory action research, for without planting the seeds, literally in the ground within our communities, and engaging in equitable distribution, there is no food justice.Food justice calls for relationships of equity in producing, processing, distributing, and consuming food to replace the corporate hierarchy of mistreatment of farmers, farm workers, and farm animals, which also ignores consumer and environmental health.As the authors state, "food justice has the capacity to reorient the food movement in [twoj ways—to prioritize the need to address inequities while seeking to change the system as a whole" (p. 7). Because the food justice movement comprises all aspectsof food from "farm to fork," it integrates readily into other social justice movements, such as fair housing or environmental justice, to foster a broad, dynamic social change agenda.