The new food activism: Opposition, cooperation, and collective action

Abstract

The New Food Activism explores the ways that food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagements with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics explored include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system, and alternatives that push the food movement beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.