This week’s article brought a few things to my attention that I found interesting. We’re enlightened more on the plan of food security and how it can be inefficient in some ways. Also, this article goes into depth of how a great number of farmers are experiencing food insecurity.
After these past few articles and discussions, I’ve always wondered if there’s problems with our international relations involving food since there’s so many with our own farmers and current food systems. I end up answering my own question a few pages into this week’s article, it was mentioned that corporate agribusinesses were privileged to run smaller farmer “in Mexico “off “their land.” The author subtly mentioned Food Sovereignty again and how Food Security focuses more on feeding the hungry rather than changing the food production relations and government policies that support food insecurity which leads us to one of the main problems in this article. I think this a wild word choice the author used, but they described the agricultural working class and “vulnerable and exploitable.” More specifically the immigrant workers which made up most of the farmer population in California.
I think the author did great highlighting the fact how the most agricultural productive region has a lot
of people facing hunger and food insecurity. The barriers those farmers face scream why Food
Sovereignty needs to be promoted more. There was a paragraph explaining how instead of helping our
current farm have stable lives year-round, California brought in new immigrant workers that lacked
documents or rights which gave the state more control of the workforce. Sounds familiar to what’s
going on in New York currently, doesn’t involve food as much but it shows the corrupt ways our
country tries to have total control over everything.
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