Food Justice: Connecting your environmental history and culture
Food justice addresses the increasing disconnect between food and culture that has resulted from our highly industrialized food system (Gottlieb and Joshi, 2010). Concomitantly, we overlook our own history and connection to land through food. In order to (re)awaken that connection, this assignment requires you to:
Provide a recipe and rationale for how and why that recipe symbolizes your connection to our environment and your culture
Consider climate change, pollution, and/or accessibility, how will your ingredients be affected?
Connect the way in which selective ingredients are grown to the health of agricultural farmworkers
Instructions:
Using the provided template (click to download), write out a food recipe that is meaningful to you (15 points).
Write a 4-page /1,000 word (1-inch margins, typed in 12 point font, and double-spaced) essay reflecting on your personal environmental history and culture with the selected food recipe.
Describe why this recipe is meaningful to you in the following terms (15 points):
History – where does the recipe originate from?
Family and sharing – why is this recipe and meal so important to you?
Ingredients –How are the ingredients related and connected to your: culture? Health? Environment?
Select one crop/food product from your recipe. Appraise and reflect on how the way that ingredient is grown and, in the context of environmental health, connect how growing that ingredient may affect agricultural farmworkers. Lastly, what can you do differently to improve the circumstances and environmental health agricultural farmworkers?
Section B must be supported by peer-reviewed academic and/or governmental publications. A minimum of three citations is required, Use APA format.