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Corporate Concentration in the Food Industry  

Steve Striffler

Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the food system, has relatively deep historical origins, even if it has reached unprecedented ... More

Edible Insects  

Gina Louise Hunter

Insects have been an important part of the human diet from time immemorial. Although they are not a common food item in Western cultures, insects contribute to the traditional diets of many ... More

The Ethics of Veganism and Plant-Based Diets  

Carlo Alvaro

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Aug 2024
Humans have been consuming meat and other animal products for millennia. Although people have been following vegetarian diets for just as long, for the past fifty years or so, many academic ... More

Family Farm Myths and the Effacement of Labor  

Adam Calo

The debate on the role of family farmers in global food security often overlooks deep mythologies that shape our understanding of the food system and constrain our policy imagination. Two ... More

Fat Stigma in the United States  

Amy Erdman Farrell

Fat stigma has deep roots in US and Western cultures, dating back centuries. Whatever leniency or even valorization given to a fat body for its sign of wealth or healthy fecundity was ... More

Food and Ethnicity  

Krishnendu Ray

Ethnic food is a slippery concept, used in various anglophone publications by the 1960s, peaking in the 1980s, and no longer used in major US metropolitan newspapers by the 2020s. It came ... More

Food and Nationalism in India  

Benjamin Siegel

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Sep 2024
The imbrication of food and nationalism in India and South Asia was an implicit concern in early anthropological literature on primarily Hindu foodways. In time, this theme became more ... More

Food and Philosophy  

Andrea Borghini

The philosophy of food is an emerging field of contemporary philosophical scholarship, which distinguishes itself for its highly inter- and cross-disciplinary orientation as well as for the ... More

Food as a Weapon  

Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen

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Jun 2024
The use of food as a weapon is as old as written records. Siege, blockade, and starvation are well-documented military strategies, as are political strategies that use food as a tool to ... More

Food Politics and Policy  

Marion Nestle

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Jul 2024
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The food industry is a vast conglomeration of national and international companies that produce, process, manufacture, sell, and serve foods, beverages, and dietary supplements. Together, ... More

Gastrodiplomacy  

Johanna Mendelson Forman

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Jul 2024
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Gastrodiplomacy is a subset of public diplomacy that uses food as a means of persuading audiences about the power of cuisine to promote specific foreign policy goals. The term entered the ... More

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets  

Craig Upright

The modern grocery store is an institution that could not have existed in earlier time periods. Its creation required the development of reliable distribution systems, preservation ... More

History of Food Advertising  

Sarah Elvins

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Jul 2024
Food advertising offers an intriguing window into the cooking and eating habits of a society, is shaped by the culture in which it is produced, and plays a role in creating and reinforcing ... More

History of the American School Lunch Program  

Shayne Figueroa

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Oct 2024
School lunch programs in the United States reflect over one hundred years of public debate and policy involving nutrition, welfare, and agriculture. These programs originated in the late ... More

The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil  

Wilder Robles

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Sep 2024
The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is presently one of the largest, best organized, and most influential social movements in Latin ... More

Latinx Immigrant Workers’ Challenges in the Rural US Food System  

Diego Thompson

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Oct 2024
A large body of literature has shown immigrant workers in the US food system experience and deal with significant problems that are often worsened in rural areas. The state and the private ... More

Low-Wage Labor in Distribution Sectors of the Food Economy  

Jennifer Parker

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Oct 2024
Low-wage distribution workers are essential to the food economy. In a globalizing world, the distance between sites of production and consumption expands as firms search the world for more ... More

Peasant Agroecology in Africa and Latin America  

Boaventura Monjane and Peter M. Rosset

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Oct 2024
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Agroecology is a word with multiple definitions. Some define it as a narrow set of technologies to make farming more sustainable, while in a broader sense it is multifaceted ... More

Processed Foods  

Garrett M. Broad

Traditional forms of food processing have deep roots in human evolutionary history and across ancient civilizations. Food-processing innovations that began in the 18th century played a key ... More

Racism and Restaurant Tipping in the United States  

Saru Jayaraman

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Sep 2024
The subminimum wage for tipped workers—a legacy of slavery and still only $2.13 an hour federally as of 2024—has always been a source of poverty, racial inequity, and sexual harassment for ... More

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