{"id":363,"date":"2013-11-25T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uwyoextension.org\/uwnutrition\/?p=363"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:48:33","slug":"food-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"newsletters","link":"https:\/\/uwyoextension.org\/uwnutrition\/newsletters\/food-justice-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Justice… For All."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Book Review:<\/i> “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States”<\/strong>– Seth M. Holmes, Ph.D., MD<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

How can we value one life over another?\u00a0 One being is nourished by the food provided by another who suffers in providing that nourishment. Must it be so..?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Topics such as health & nutrition, eating your veggies, and warding off cancer and heart disease tend to be in different conversations than those involving migrant labor, guarding our borders, \u2018illegal workers\u2019, the Dream Act, and the like.\u00a0 Should we be having both of these conversations at the same dinner party?\u00a0 Turns out these topics are more intertwined than we tend to think.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Testimony<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe dedicate everything to the fields, we are field workers.\u00a0 We are workers; ever since we\u2019re born, we\u2019re planting\u2026 Poor people from Oaxaca come here; we come here to give away our strength and everything, and they don\u2019t do anything for us. Because of our will, this government survives.- Samuel, 31 y.o. Triqui Mexican father, speaking with his family and me over tamales in his labor camp shack, rural Washington State, summer 2004, \u2018Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\u2019- pg 30.<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Tip of the Iceberg<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the book \u2018Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\u2019 Seth Holmes dives into this<\/i> topic from a personal as well as anthropological vantage point.\u00a0 As enlightening and poignant as this book is. It is merely the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0 How are we willing to change our food system that will not only honor our bodies in a healthy way, while honoring the lives and bodies of those bringing us the food that nourishes us?\u00a0 This is a matter of life, love, and justice.\u00a0 It is important to truly know where our food is coming from, how it\u2019s treated and who is bringing it to us. And once you know. you can never un-know.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Failing to Recognize the Association<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cHolmes lets us know in no uncertain terms why<\/i> we often fail to recognize the association between our \u2018care of the self\u2019 and the suffering imposed on indigenous Mexican farm workers that has been rendered invisible through the naturalization of racialized hierarchies.\u00a0 He shows us the urgency of recognizing that global assemblages are unequally structured and, although they impose themselves on all of us, they distribute embodied suffering deferentially onto structurally vulnerable populations.\u201d\u00a0 (\u2018Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\u2019 Forward by Philippe Bourgois, pg xii)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Peaked your interest.. but don\u2019t want to take my word for it? Check out this link for more information, and then head to a library near you!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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