Alkon Food Justice

 I had never considered food to be used as racism and this TED Talk really opened my eyes. I was shocked to hear about the way systemic racism plays into food and how processed unhealthy foods are cheaper when healthy food costs the same or less to produce. Fresh produce is so expensive when the farmers working to grow it are not being paid enough to live. White people are taught and brought up on the idea that white people farm and created farming and cultivating is for them only when the slaves were farming, and black people and people of other races are farming all over the world and in America and America is supposed to be for immigrants so the mistreating of them is truly insane. America is so heavily established on farmers and being producers to export when no other countries want as much corn and soy as we produce, and there is no need for farmers to be underpaid to overproduce. I think at a fundamental level this issue could be fixed starting with our kids. If we teach that differences and history matter, they are more likely to respect and understand it and fight for what is right. Alkon discus's the idea that kids are bullied for being different in schools because of the traditional meals they bring, and I think even that could be changed in the way children are raised. More importantly we need to fight for lower prices on fresh produce and healthy foods, especially when they are being raised for no reason. The farmers are still unable to survive and produce as much as they do on subsidies. I love the message Alkon is sending, and I agree and feel like I learned a lot.