Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism

摘要: "Weighing In" takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness relationship to health outcomes ask if our efforts prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses lens of obesity broader food system understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food, as well eat it. issue with currently touted remedy - promoting that is local, organic, farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can reinforce class race inequalities neglect other possible explanations for rise obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing ours a political economy bulimia one promotes consumption while insisting upon thinness offers complex analysis entire economic system.