Food and Labor
A practice in which high status Americans unfairly took advantage of the agricultural labor of indentured servants and Black Africans.
What is Exploitation?
This term includes idea that cookies are bad because they are high in calories and low in micronutrients like vitamins.
What is Nutritionism?
The structure of our food environment limiting our food choices.
What is a Dietary Regime?
When a neighborhood or community has a lack of access to grocery stores and fresh food.
What is a Food Desert?
This type of Constitution is the idea that the environment and society are not separate but rather intertwined.
What is Conjoint?
The assumption that farm owners will provide good labor and living conditions to workers, as if the workers were part of their family.
What is Paternalism?
When people have enough calories to survive but are not getting all the nutrients they need, such as iron.
What is Hidden Hunger?
This type of diet is comprised of mostly preserved and processed foods.
What is an Industrial Diet?
When a neighborhood or community has plentiful access to convenience foods but few healthy options.
What is a Food Swamp?
The Dust Bowl was an environment caused by this type of agricultural industrialization.
What is Agricultural Extensification?
A trend in which African Americans were replaced as farm laborers by Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino workers, who were later replaced by Mexican workers.
What is Ethnic Succession?
Golden rice is an example of this type of, often ineffective, "fix".
What is Nutritional?
This type of transition occurs when undernourishment is replaced by overnourishment.
What is a Nutritional Transition?
When a neighborhood or community that has experienced racial segregation and, as a consequence, has very different food options for people of different races.
What is Food Apartheid?
This aquatic problem area is largely the result of nitrogen runoff from agriculture.
What is a dead zone?
The H-2A system, in which employment is temporary and has few protections, is an example of this type work.
What is Precarious Work?
A former pharmaceutical lobbyist being appointed to run the Food and Drug Administration would be an example of this type of regulatory capture.
What is the Revolving Door?
The first Food Regime is characterized by this.
What is Normalization?
SNAP benefits assume that households spend this percent of their income on food.
What is 30%?
According to the EPA, this % of greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural production.
What is 10%?
Differences in status; for example, although slavery was abolished, differences in status remained because white dominance was normalized.
What are Power Hierarchies?
The study of science, not as a neutral process, but as the result of social and historical influences.
What is the Sociology of Science?
The practice of advertising, displaying, and overall making visible processed foods.
What is Spatial Colonization?
The donation of food, money, or time to charities that provide food assistance.
What is an Emergency Food Network?
When we consider the entire food SYSTEM, it is responsible for this percentage of greenhouse gas emissions.
What is 34%