User:Tamsberk/Food Justice
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Food justice is an environmental and social movement with goals of assuring equitable distribution of the benefits and risks concerned with the consumption and production of sustainable, affordable, and nutritious foods.[1] Food justice relies on the premise that there are substantial inequalities within the industrial food system, which it wishes to address by incorporating concepts and techniques from other justice movements, such as critically theorizing about race, class, ethnicity, and taking into consideration sustainability and food access. Food justice is a topic of both scholarly inquiry and part of wide-ranging activist movements.[2] Food justice expands on the ideas of food security and food sovereignty to work alongside other movements such as income inequality,[3] restorative justice,[4] racial and gender discrimination,[5] and environmental degradation in order to address social, economic, and cultural aspects of food systems in the United States and abroad. It goes beyond the older simplistic paradigm of "feeding the world" and includes concerns of equitable distribution and access to food and unequal power relations in food consumption and production.[6]
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