"Food for People, Not for Profit": Justice and the Food Movement
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Why have modern food movements become so popular? Are they due to an absolute shortage of food on the one hand, and an elitist obsession with local and organic foods on the other? Or are they, as this thesis argues, a collective consequence of the inappropriate commodification of food resources, the result of the distributive, procedural, and recognitional injustice that it produces. To make this claim, I examine various political and legal philosophers' theories of commodification and justice, and apply their frameworks to make the case that food has become inappropriately commodified. This thesis concludes that it is this inappropriate commodification of food against which modern food movements protest.
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Name(s)
Author: Aylward, Caitlin Claire
Thesis advisor: Gruen, Lori
Date
May 23, 2013
Extent
171 pages
Language
eng
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Physical Form
electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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PID
ir:1688