Garrett M. Broad, “More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change” (U of California Press, 2016)

Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast · May 13, 2016 · 54m

Resistance to the industrial food system has, over the past decades, led to the rise of alternative food movements. Debate about genetically modified food, sugar consumption, fast food and the obesity crisis (to name a few) is pervasive. Most often, this focuses on individual consumer choice. Garrett M.Broad argues, however, for the importance of community level initiative. He maintains that the vote with your fork movement obscures the structural foundation of the corporate food system. The alternative food movements, as a whole, fail to recognize that the inequities in the food system are…