Food insecurity touches so many other issues that are both region specific, and global. It exacerbates immigration conflicts, worker’s rights, land disputes, environmental degradation, refugee crisis’s, gender issues, trade, and global security. Our group chose to tie food insecurity to local immigration issues. Immigration is obviously a highly political issue right now because of the administration’s brutal policies, and Washington… Read more »
Professor Litfin was correct when she pointed out the high level of general anxiety in the generations of students she has taught most recently. Questions about how our political, social and economic systems impact a range of people with different levels of access are nothing new. However, there is more access to a wealth of information from channels that circulate… Read more »
Michael Pollan’s solutions to the industrialized food system are to turn inward focusing on individual action that insulates people from the larger and more problematic food supply chain. However, the choices that people can make about their food do not exist in a vacuum; there political and economic forces that constrain what individuals are able to do in terms of… Read more »