Food justice: a vision deeper than the problem | Anim Steel | TEDxManhattan

Anim Steel is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Real Food Challenge, a campaign to re-direct $1 billion of college food purchases towards local, fair, and sustainable sources within 10 years.
Anim Steel led national initiatives at The Food Project in Boston and was a consultant with Economic Development Assistance Consortium. Anim holds a B.A. in Astrophysics and History from Williams College and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the recipient of a Prime Mover Fellowship for movement-building and an Echoing Green award for social entrepreneurship. Born in Ghana, Anim grew up in both West Africa and Washington, DC.
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[@jmaessen3531]

Thank you very much, you've given us much more to research and wonderful ideas for solutions. Thank you again!

[@palenshc]

This is just great, it helps me get a bigger perspective on the work I do. Thank you!

[@carmenb9691]

sigh I still don't understand what food justice is.

[@digitalclown2008]

This was the most vague and ambiguous speach ive ever heard. This dude used like... 100% buzz words and danced around the point the whole time.
Im curious. What access, as a white American living in the dallas area, do I have to food that a marginalized people in Brooklyn do not. Ive seen Brooklyn from satellite view. Yall have grocery stores and food stores and restaurants. Even in the poorest sectors of Brooklyn, there are enough grocery stores to reasonably take a cab, walk etc. worst case scenario.
Im curious at what point the race part comes in. Like... The causation. Not just some form of correlation.
Poor people struggling to obtain food is not a profound concept. And while race was a deciding factor in who got to hold/maintain land rights and production etc... it wasnt the ONLY factor. And poverty knows no color.
Drenching the conversation in a minority centric race based context sort of detracts from the actual scope of the issue, which is much larger as this is affecting even MIDDLE CLASS WHITE AMERICANS (and some of this new infrastructure they are building in Texas makes these problems just as bad or worse whwn it comes to access)