Food Justice: a New Social Movement Takes Root

[devent82]

WTF are the two dudes and why do they need to be in the background all the time?

[LendMeYourHand]

People dont realize that these evil corporations are limiting options, it doesnt matter where you go, You have no choices. They play out the market by putting strangle holds on organic farms. It is all illegal & it is all written in bills that were designed to do so. Think about the money struggles involved in every day choices. people have to get canned foods from dollar stores with some survivalist mentality, Yet these products are saturated with phosphates. An intentional over exposure.

[LendMeYourHand]

Google has there symbolism. They appaerently are spying on us. So why would a sellout company like Google be talking about options of not poisoning the masses??? I'm not a damn bit scared of what information they are saving on me. We both know all its gonna take is for All Americans to hit the streets. It doesnt matter whether its peaceful or violent,  once Americans start dying on American soil, The plan for the NWO will shatter.

[stijnlei]

@OldSchoolSkill i agree, in fact:everything we choose to buy is a political force

[stephenmneedham]

Don't tell me what to do and I'll return the favor. Split a vending machine in 1/2 but don't deny a choice. It starts there and then it creeps into other parts of your life till suddenly you have no choices in anything. This guy looks like a model of eating well. He didn't get his svelte figure eating celery.

[bmecher]

Social Justice is a serious turn off for me. It looks like a modified form of theft from haves to give to a bunch of have nots, many of whom are perfectly capable of doing for themselves.

"Emerging Food Movement" yeah right it looks like another group trying to centralize control again. The system of free individuals making their own choices without a gun involved solves a lot of problems.

[iloverumi]

that chick is hot. i'd tap that

[thegoodlocust]

Either something is justice or it is not - calling something "social" or "food" justice modifies it to mean something other than justice. if it isn't justice then it is injustice.

All these mini-causes under the banner of "social justice" (e.g. environmental justice) advocate one thing under euphemistic terms - stealing from others to provide "justice" for others.

Unintended consequences are of course always ignored because these causes are for the simple minded.

[thegoodlocust]

The original Pilgrims starved because they "fairly" distributed their resources and nobody owned anything. Therefore people were lazy and didn't work the land because they had no stake in it - they knew they'd get their share of the community resources. The people who worked hard got fed up with having to take care of the lazy and they became more lazy themselves.

Their problems were fixed when the governor implemented private ownership of the land. Food "justice" is an oxymoron.

[Lunji]

@thegoodlocust

- an action is not either justice or injustice. finding an example of this is trivial. words like social and food give a more accurate description of the theme that wouldn't be apparent if it was left as simply justice.

- nice misrepresentation of a broad theme.

- I can only hope that we have advanced to a point now where we dont have to avoid something because it didnt work for the original [sic] pilgrims... :|

-do you really think food and justice are contradictory?

[thegoodlocust]

@Lunji These things needs the qualifiers in front; they need the "social" justice because it means injustice for others. It means stealing from others to provide "justice" for others.

And you act like the Pilgrims are the only example - Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin - all these socialistic governments, of which "social justice" is simply the current sheep's costume, directly or indirectly murdered hundreds of millions of people through "social justice."

Welfare != Justice. Welfare = slavery for all.

[Lunji]

@thegoodlocust

Just because apparently I need to make this clearer: I wasn't replying to your opinions I was replying to your language and arguments, which I consider to be at this point to be misleading.

How does your definition of what social or food justice means differ from that of justice without the qualifiers concerning the stealing from others statement?

"And you act like..."

Do you choose your words based on their ability to accurately convey meaning or for some other reason?

[thegoodlocust]

@Lunji You consider MY language to be misleading? You have got to be kidding me. All these "justice" movements are based on the manipulation of language in order to con people.

My concept of justice is pretty simple - if a person perpetrates evil then they should be punished and if a person does good then they should be rewarded.

With food or social "justice" anyone who is rewarded by their hard work with food or money are redefined as being evil and are punished via theft from you people.

[thegoodlocust]

@thegoodlocust You people have to call it "social justice" because calling it by its real name, theft, would be too honest and clear. You are calling it the opposite of what it really means.

I find your last question to be meaningless.

[Lunji]

@thegoodlocust

How are you boiling down what I'm saying to become some form of: You're wrong because I believe in food justice"?

if it was meaningless to you then why not answer it since you know it had meaning for me :(

so yeh then option B.

[Lunji]

@thegoodlocust

are you even replying to me or is the button next to my name labelled "get on soap box"?

P1 your either saying 1.my language is misleading because a (--imagined) 3rd party is misleading(according to you). or 2.you're allowed to be misleading because someone else is.

Two people can disagree with you for different reasons. Blind stereotyping :(

P2 Entry level ethics.start with what is evil or the perspective of an inmate

P3 See P2.How is evil not a re-definable societal construct?

[billysielu]

but... who is the girl! :o)

[Zendout1]

More Liberal cruelty. I guess tobacco/smokers no longer satisfy their need to persecute and now they're looking for new pastures to seed the next hate fest. Now they can extort Coca-cola, MacDonalds, etc, etc, etc

Happy days are here again-eh boys?

[jestempies]

I think the question is how do we make local food cheaper? There's less transportation and less need for extended shelf life, so it should be possible to make local food cheaper via research into biotech and robotics.

[jckchrstphr]

@jestempies He mentioned subsidies. That means getting rid of corporate subsidies, and starting local ones.

But there's more to do than that. Food (consumer) cooperatives are another. That's our alternative to BJs and Sam's Club.

[buzzin1975]

I want GRAPE DRINK nigga! It's got my favorite ingredients: sugar, water, and of course, PURPLE. 

[Bengomo]

There are almost no "cons" to buying fresh local food. Good for you, good for the local economy, good for the environment, and many more

Just do it.

[patola123]

@Bengomo Yes, there is. Check that: skeptoi d.com / episodes/4162

[thegoodlocust]

@Bengomo The cons are of course that you can't purchase fresh fruits and vegetables that aren't in season in your area. Sure buy local, but many areas, esp. up north, don't have much variety of produce and it certainly wouldn't be healthy to only eat local foods.