Essay On Food Justice System

In our food system, farmers and their workers face backbreaking and unsafe conditions. Low socioeconomics connects the dots on the families that are struggling. Do farmers and low socioeconomic workers and their families have access to the healthcare they need, or even the time they need to maintain a healthy life style? Most minority ancestors were forced into slums and poverty by the American settlers that manifested themselves onto this land from the East. Land is essential in producing healthy foods and income. Americans refused to uphold their promise with Mexican American land grants and African Americans were never given their forty acres and a mule when slavery was abolished. These minority groups were pushed into slums and since Land is essential in producing healthy foods and income, they were left to live on small wages and have very little time to prepare nutritional and safe foods for themselves
American fast-food franchises has been a large benefactor to an epidemic of obesity and disease in our country. To fight these negative over powering entities, an emerging movement for food justice has been created to seek transformation in our food system from planting a seed and following all the way to the table. A food justice structure ensures that the benefits and risks of how food is grown, processed, distributed, and consumed are all equal. There are current efforts in place to change the system. This includes all efforts from community gardens, to farmer training, to youth empowerment, but what roll does or government play in the food justice system and what more can they do to lower the negative impact to our communities, health system, and workforce productivity? Because In “a 2012 study, 52% of Americans (that were polled) believed doing their taxes was easier than figuring out how to eat healthy.”(11