{"id":1381,"date":"2018-05-07T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2018-05-07T06:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T06:15:38","slug":"contemplation-on-anti-immigration-rhetoric-and-cheap-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/07\/contemplation-on-anti-immigration-rhetoric-and-cheap-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation on Anti-immigration Rhetoric and Cheap Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racial discrimination is an issue that most people thought withered away especially with prominent events like the election of our first African-American president. However, events of recency have demonstrated that these movements are not dead, rather they have caught a second wind. <em>The Color of Food<\/em> by Raj Patel demonstrates that this discrimination has expanded into U.S. agriculture system in the form of wage disparities on the basis of race. It is evident that these wage disparities are harmful to minorities, however, it took further complementation on my part to understand the role this disparity plays in global food trade and prices.<\/p>\n<p>This contemplation allowed me to connect Patel\u2019s report with the theme brought up in the Hungry Planet paper, in that the agriculture system at home and abroad produces cheap food at the expense of others. This becomes especially harmful to those from non-wealthy backgrounds. However, I\u2019m curious about what would happen if there was more equity in pay distribution in the agriculture system. Would this reduced discrepancy prevent racial minorities from getting jobs in the agriculture industry and\/or would it simply make food more expensive?<\/p>\n<p>Although this report was from 2011, it couldn\u2019t be any more relevant to our current administration\u2019s anti-immigration rhetoric and policies cracking down on Mexican immigration. A bigger border wall and expanded ICE activities will have unattended downstream effects on food cost because it will reduce the amount of cheap labor involved in all phases of the U.S. food system. Moreover, these anti-immigration efforts will impede our ability to sustain cheap food production and will reduce our comparative advantage in global food exports. Even with current inflamed racial tensions, the global communities need for cheap food will drive states to maintain these racial wage disparities in the long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial discrimination is an issue that most people thought withered away especially with prominent events like the election of our first African-American president. However, events of recency have demonstrated that these movements are not dead, rather they have caught a second wind. The Color of Food by Raj Patel demonstrates that this discrimination has expanded into U.S. agriculture system in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/07\/contemplation-on-anti-immigration-rhetoric-and-cheap-food\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}