Fast Food Justice

The past seven weeks of studying Fast Food Nation has been very interesting to learn about the different topics that were explored in the industrial food system through a feminist food justice point of view. Also learning about the subjects in a way to include the social characteristics, which includes race, class, gender and nationality can impact food manufacturing and consumption. Therefore from the beginning we learned about the concept food justice “as ensuring that the benefits and risks of where what and how food is grown and produced and transported and distributed and accessed and eaten are shared fairly” (Gottlieb and Joshi, 2011 p. 6). Therefore, food justice engages in providing access to fresh nutrition and creating activism to all individuals …show more content…
An example would be when it comes to the fast food alternative choices is that manufactured food system that is represented in society are unhealthy to consume. Second, would be the feminist food justice movement to observe the lives of food labors. An example would be how so many Hispanic migrants are in the agriculture workforce and the meat packing workplace may not understand they have rights because of the language barrier. So many of these hard-working individuals are taking advantage. Therefore, women are sexual assault lecture 4 “women interviewed in by SPLC said they had encountered the problem so often that they believed it was a common practice in the United States to exchange sex for job security” (Injustice on our plates, 2010). Which is so horrible and sad what these women have to go through to for work. Lastly, agriculture and the farmers are a significant factor when it comes to food production. Overall, Fast Food Nation has made me more aware of food and I have a better understanding of food