US Food Justice

Food justice sees the lack of healthy food in poor communities as a human rights issue and draws from grassroots struggles and US organizing traditions such as the civil rights and environmental justice movements.

OUR FLESH WAS MADE FROM CORN

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | May 18, 2016

The name “Pinole” comes from the Nahuatl word pinolli, meaning cornmeal. It is why Pinole, California was the perfect site…

Backgrounder: Dismantling Racism in the Food System

Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Breeze Harper and Eric Holt-Giménez | Mar 21, 2016

Here we discuss how racism and our food system have co-evolved, how present-day racism operates within the food system, and what we can do to dismantle racism