Posted on 12/28/2017 7:09:22 AM PST by x1stcav
I buy almost all my food at the farmer's market and I am fortunate that I live near several different weekend markets. One reason I do this is that I like to support small businesses like farms. Another is that I care about where my food comes from and how, in the case of meat, it is treated and fed. Factory farming is a nightmare. My farmer's markets also accept WIC so anyone can come by and purchase fresh vegetables, herbs, fruit or more importantly: bacon. I gave out bacon from my pig farmer to my friends for Christmas because it's that good. Customers can also buy dairy products, baked goods and prepared food.
Apparently this makes me REALLY white.
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco are part of an anthology released this month titled “Just Green Enough.” The work, published by Routledge, claims there is a correlation between the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” and gentrification.
“Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized,” the SDSU professors write, the education watchdog Campus Reform reported Wednesday.
“The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals,” according to the writers.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
This is the flip side to the “Food Deserts” in the inner cities.
The people in the inner cities rob so many businesses in their neighborhoods, pretty soon there aren’t many businesses in their neighborhoods. Then they get to complain about how The Man keeps food sellers out of their neighborhoods.
I guess all that food is just funneled to the White People’s Farmers Markets.
Umm...
When I read stuff like this, I’m just struck dumb. I did a LOT of BSing in my graduate work, but this is next-level BSing.
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