WHAT IS FOOD JUSTICE?
FOOD JUSTICE, as defined by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi and the FOOD JUSTICE project, is as follows:
Food justice seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly. Food justice represents a transformation of the current food system, including but not limited to eliminating disparities and inequities.*
FOOD JUSTICE is an attempt to purchase and consume food created in a conscious, healthy, and sustainable manner. FOOD JUSTICE is the belief in a system which has the ability to produce locally and distribute fairly. FOOD JUSTICE is, whenever possible, a refusal to accept food which contributes to the disassembly of local markets and industry, to the wasteful use of resources, to the needless creation of pollution, to the unhealthful treatment of animals, to the production of a harmful product, to the mistreatment of low-income neighborhoods. FOOD JUSTICE is an effort to know where one's food comes from, an effort to improve said food and said food's origin, and an effort to spread said knowledge and said improvement. FOOD JUSTICE, at its heart, is conscious production, and conscious consumption.
FOOD JUSTICE is not limited to any one aspect of the food production industry. It is a general sense of awareness for what one eats, and a general effort to bring social and environmental consciousness (that is, justice) to the process of eating.
FOOD JUSTICE is fun!
WHAT IS FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE?
FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE is a co-operative living community of Occidental College students who attempt to live justly in terms of food production and consumption. It was founded by Occidental students, and is committed to local food production, environmentally-conscious eating habits, urban gardening, and community outreach and awareness. The FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE has a backyard vegetable garden, but also attempts, whenever possible, to purchase its food from independent grocers, organic producers, and local farmer's markets. FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE is dedicated to healthy, communal meals, and values quality ingredients and gourmet cooking as much as it does just production.
FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE is not only committed to food issues, but to environmental and socially-conscious living as well. FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE advocates low-flow plumbing, union-made manufacturing, local business, and women's empowerment.
WHO IS FOOD JUSTICE?
FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE residents change every semester. Summer 2012 residents are:
Zoë Butler
Dan Crowley
Noah Donnell-Kilmer
Gabriel Mathews
Ben "The Best" Tuthill
Zoë Butler
Dan Crowley
Noah Donnell-Kilmer
Gabriel Mathews
Ben "The Best" Tuthill
For past residents, see the FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE family portraits.
HOW CAN I BE FOOD JUSTICE?
Think about what you eat, live responsibly, buy local. Or send a message to tuthill@oxy.edu.
*foodjusticebook.org 