OK, so, what would you say, my ‘foodie’ friends, if you found out that your favorite ‘slow food’, ‘sustainable’, ‘local’ touting restaurant exploits and abuses its servers and busers….most who are ‘conveniently’ non-white racialized people? Seems like many ‘foodies’ and ‘slow food’ restaurants are only concerned about the ‘purity’ of their meal ingredients, but don’t care much about the lack of ‘purity’ behind racialized and gendered abuse and exploitation.

via Behind the Kitchen Door, Being a “Foodie of Color”, and “Good Food” Restaurant’s Human Exploitation | The Sistah Vegan Project.

Last week, a New York state judge struck down the Bloomberg administration’s attempt to limit the sizes of certain sugary drinks sold in the city.As the co-founder of one real food campaign, I’ve been following the coverage and public commentary with great interest, and I’m struck by what I hear.  Or don’t hear, rather. First of all, I am astounded by the relative silence about marketing.  Yes, some journalists and call-in guests have mentioned the enormous amount of money that food and beverage marketers spend on advertising some $10 billion a year; including over $4 billion for fast food alone.But rarely is that amount put in perspective, comparing it to funding for nutrition education.  Food and beverage marketing, for instance, dwarfs the federal government’s efforts to promote fruit and vegetable consumption by a factor of 1,000.

via Empty Calories: What’s Missing From the Debate Over NYC’s Soda “Ban” | Civil Eats.

How do you have a real discussion about racism and white privilege and create a more inclusive food movement? On February 16th, I attended an event at The Point called Not Just Talk: Food in the South Bronx organized by BLK Projek Executive Director Tanya Fields to reconcile differences and provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of race and diversity issues within the food justice movement. Fields was originally expected to speak at an event called “Changing the Way We Eat” organized by TEDx on February 16th , but was later uninvited without a reasonable explanation. TEDx is part of a global event called Technology, Entertainment and Design, which provides a platform for interesting people to present their ideas in engaging ways…

keep reading at Brooklyn Movement Center Examining the Food Justice Color Line » Brooklyn Movement Center.

And it may be fair to see the proposal, as some observers have intimated, as an instance of middle-class whites trying to control the behavior of working-class minorities — just as they did under Prohibition.

via When Jim Crow Drank Coke – NYTimes.com.