Food Policy
SNAP, WIC, and the National School Lunch Program all fall under this broader category of federal support.
What are federal nutrition assistance programs? (the nutrition safety net)
Seth Holmes used this research method — immersing himself in the daily life of Triqui farmworkers — to write 'Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies.'
What is participant observation?
The Health Belief Model construct that asks: does this person believe the threat could actually happen to them?
What is perceived susceptibility?
Feminist food scholars point out that cooking, grocery shopping, and feeding the family falls disproportionately on this group.
Who are women?
One of the simplest reasons we eat what we eat — if a food isn't available or you can't afford it, you probably won't eat it.
What is food access?
The piece of legislation combines food assistance programs with ag programs.
What is the farm bill?
Holmes argues that the physical suffering of Triqui workers — aching knees, pesticide exposure — comes to seem natural and expected through this social process.
What is the naturalization of suffering?
This theory is common in ag extension services; it helps explain how new ideas and practices spread.
What is Diffusion of Innovations Theory?
What is Kosher?
Food companies spend billions on this to shape what we want to eat — from cartoon characters on cereal boxes to celebrity endorsements.
What is marketing?
The USDA releases these jointly with HHS every five years to guide federal nutrition programs and public health messaging.
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
The indigenous Mexican community at the center of Holmes's book, whose members migrate seasonally to work on berry farms in the Pacific Northwest.
Who are Triqui?
Bandura's term for a person's belief in their own capacity to successfully execute a specific behavior.
What is self-efficacy?
Thie concept refers to a child's ability to influence their parents' purchasing decisions.
What is pester power?
These social media personalities target audiences of children, and are usually children themselves.
What are kidfluencers?
Many of the food and ag programs today have their roots in this collection of legislation from the mid twentieth century.
What is the New Deal?
Holmes uses this French sociologist's concepts of habitus, field, and capital to analyze why migrant workers occupy the lowest rungs of farm labor.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
The stage in the Transtheoretical Model where a person is actively changing their behavior but has been doing so for less than six months.
What is action?
Salads full of cool whip, jello and even Snickers are an example.
What are cultural food norms?
Before refrigeration and global supply chains, this naturally shaped what people ate, when they ate it, and how they celebrated with food.
What is seasonality?
This deal is largely responsible for the prevalance of avocados in the American diet.
What is the NAFTA?
Holmes's central argument: the poor health of farmworkers is not the result of individual choices or cultural deficits, but of this.
What is structural violence?
This construct — added to the Theory of Reasoned Action to create the Theory of Planned Behavior — acknowledges that not all behavior is fully under a person's voluntary control.
What is perceived control?
Food is so central to human identity and meaning-making that people have always felt compelled to make this with it.
What is art?
This helps us examine various levels of food systems to help answer our big question of the semester.
What is the Social Ecological Model?