06 February 2012

An emblematic example of this narrative at work is the ubiquitous food-movement adage to fix the food system by “voting with your fork” (Pollan 2006). This strategy not only takes the access and purchasing power of the pre-dominantly white, middle-class consumer for granted, but also it assumes that our food system can be reformed through informed consumer choice, and ignores the ways working-class and people of color have historically brought about social change (Guthman 2008).

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