Horst - Food Justice and Municipal Governments article

 Throughout this article, Horst explains the importance of equal opportunity for all, especially when it comes to the five key principles of food justice: inequity/trauma, land, labor,  democratic process, and exchange. She highlights the ways that the municipal governments are helping communities move towards food justice, but also touches upon the reasons why municipal governments may be part of the reason the movement is being held back. 

I agree with Horst's statement that municipal governments tend to favor ideas present by higher class citizens in order to put changes forth in a community, or complying to neoliberal ideology, which raises issues to the lower class citizens that consistently struggle when it comes to being able to afford food in their area. 

While studying two different programs, the Puget Sound Regional Food Policy Council, as well as the City of Seattle,  Horst notes that both programs have their setbacks, but adds that they are working towards correcting these negative effects in order to secure food justice for all. I believe that Horst is right in saying that in order for these programs and coordinators to be successful in their intended goal, that they must first recognize their faults and address concepts of historical trauma relating to food and land, especially to the Native American community and people of color, who have been robbed of their land and displaced into areas where they are seen as less deserving of healthy food. 

Overall, this article really put into perspective how little municipal governments really work to help resolve an issue, and how they usually tend to just glaze over the hardships that actually caused these disparities, and that acknowledging the issues they preceded the food injustice in such areas would benefit them in working towards resolutions.