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Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie
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<blockquote data-quote="The Guardian RSS" data-source="post: 7542222" data-attributes="member: 78390"><p><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie</strong></p><p></p><p>Written by Raj Patel</p><p></p><p>From amnesia about apple pie to burger battlefields, author and academic Raj Patel says today’s food justice fights have long, bloody histories</p><p></p><p>Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online <a href="https://archive.defense.gov/home/features/2008/0708_symbols/" target="_blank">collection of American symbols</a>, alongside Uncle Sam, and cowboys.</p><p></p><p>Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2013.10.002" target="_blank">Central Asia</a>, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01970.x" target="_blank">Spanish</a> colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people.</p><p></p><p>Seven out of the ten worst paying jobs in America are in the food system, and women are over-represented in them</p><p></p><p>The US was made by finding ever lower labour costs, and workers always fought back. Food justice, and its opposite, are of a piece</p><p></p><p><em>Raj Patel is the author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System. He is currently working on a <a href="http://www.generationfoodproject.org/" target="_blank">documentary and book</a> about the future of the food system </em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/food-injustice-has-deep-roots-lets-start-with-americas-apple-pie" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Since you’re here …</strong></p><p></p><p>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.</p><p></p><p>If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Guardian RSS, post: 7542222, member: 78390"] [img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png[/img] [b]Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie[/b] Written by Raj Patel From amnesia about apple pie to burger battlefields, author and academic Raj Patel says today’s food justice fights have long, bloody histories Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online [URL='https://archive.defense.gov/home/features/2008/0708_symbols/']collection of American symbols[/URL], alongside Uncle Sam, and cowboys. Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in [URL='https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2013.10.002']Central Asia[/URL], making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with [URL='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01970.x']Spanish[/URL] colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people. Seven out of the ten worst paying jobs in America are in the food system, and women are over-represented in them The US was made by finding ever lower labour costs, and workers always fought back. Food justice, and its opposite, are of a piece [I]Raj Patel is the author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System. He is currently working on a [URL='http://www.generationfoodproject.org/']documentary and book[/URL] about the future of the food system [/I] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/food-injustice-has-deep-roots-lets-start-with-americas-apple-pie']Continue reading...[/URL] [b]Since you’re here …[/b] … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you. [url="https://support.theguardian.com/uk"][img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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