Gendered and Racial Injustices in American Food Systems and Cultures

Multiple factors create food injustices in the United States. They occur different societal sectors and traverse multiple scales, from constrained choices of industrialized system to legal corporate structures that replicate entrenched racial gender inequalities, cultural expectations around preparation consumption. Such further harm already disadvantaged groups, especially women minorities, while also exacerbating environmental deterioration. This article consists five sections employ complementary approaches humanities, design studies, science technology studies. The authors explore cases represent structural current American system, including: racialized gendered effects systems cultures on both men women; misguided de-territorialized global branding Mediterranean Diet as a universal ideal; role safety regulations microbes reinforcing injustices; benefits considering all its parts designed artifacts can be redesigned. concludes by discussing how achieving justice simultaneously promote sustainable production consumption practices—a process that, like itself, invites scholars practitioners actively our ways empower stakeholders emphasize importance collaboration interconnection.