Industrial Food Environmental Racism

While some viewpoints perceive environmental issues as a hoax, the violent reality of environmental racism is rooted in the system of privilege, whereas A physical identity determine one’s quality of health.Environmental racism is the placement of working class communities within close range of hazardous domains, such as excess pollution, and waste sites. A systemic issue like such not only prevails dangerous ecological and health implications around subordinate communities, but it normalizes the idea that colorism is deeply rotted into society.

Food used to be the primary form of medicine: a way to nurture and nourish oneself, since our bodies use nutrients as a source of energy to progress the day. However, with the boom of industrial food

There is no doubt that corporations kill people, however their intended targets become specific.Research by University of Southern California’s professor Laura Pulido, states,“Race, according to a growing body of empirical evidence, continues to be the most significant variable in determining the location of commercial, industrial, and military hazardous-waste sites” (Pulido). In the age of global capitalism, corporations push to maintain their bottom line, and the maximization of profit stems from the exploitation of the land and the environment. According to Paul Stretesky and Michael Lynch, professors at the University of South Florida, corporate violence is a form of environmental racism, since entities dump toxic waste into less-established communities. With this regard, working class communities are exposed to potential health risks, making them seem less valuable. Scholars note, “We believe that violence is an act that results from an unjust use of power that results in physical injury, disease or disability” (Stretesky 168). Since society is narrated through the dangers/lens of capitalism, “To the extent that low incomes and education are related to low willingness to pay for the environment and low expected damages in liability cases, and these variables in turn are associated with race, profit-maximizing firms may choose to locate in minority areas because compensation demands and expected liabilities from operation are lower there” (Hamilton). In other words, corporations push for manufacturing plants to be centralized in working class communities, because they are less likely to take political action. The lack of intervention within the communities being affected by hazardous environments internalizes the idea of race, making it a systematic barrier for non-whites to gain