Bite Back: People Taking On Corporate Food and Winning

by Saru Jayaraman (Editor), Kathryn De Master (Editor), Marion Nestle (Foreword by)

Overview

The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to corporate bullying.

In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520289369
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/12/2020
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Saru Jayaraman is Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, President of One Fair Wage, cofounder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.

Kathryn De Master is a rural sociologist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliated scholar with the UC Berkeley Food Institute. 

Table of Contents

Foreword
Marion Nestle

Introduction
Kathryn De Master and Saru Jayaraman

1.
SEEDS
Call to Action • How Corporations Control Our Seeds
Philip H. Howard
Collective Response • Taking Back Our Seeds
Kristina “Kiki” Hubbard

2.
PESTICIDES
Call to Action • Pesticide Purveyors and Corporate Power
Jill Lindsey Harrison
Collective Response • Drift Catchers Combatting Pesticide Power
Emily Marquez, Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, and Kristin Schafer

3.
EXTRACTION
Call to Action • Devil’s Bargain: Fractured Farms or Freedom?
Kathryn De Master and Stephanie A. Malin
Collective Response • Food and Water over Fracking
Wenonah Hauter and Seth A. Gladstone

4 .
LABOR
Call to Action • Food Workers versus Food Giants
Joann Lo and Jose Oliva
Collective Response • Food Workers Taking On Goliath
Saru Jayaraman

5.
HEALTH
Call to Action • Fast Food Embodied: Industrial Diets
Kristine Madsen and Wendi Gosliner
Collective Response • Moving a McMountain
Anna Lappé and Kelle Louaillier

6.
HUNGER
Call to Action • Hunger Incorporated: Who Benefits
from Anti-Hunger Efforts?
Andy Fisher
Collective Response • Progress over Poverty
through Political Power
Jim Araby

7.
TRADE
Call to Action • The Corporate Stock in Trade
Raj Patel and Maywa Montenegro de Wit
Collective Response • Food Sovereignty
in Japan and Beyond
Ayumi Kinezuka and Maywa Montenegro de Wit
Conclusion: Stand Up, Bite Back
Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master
Afterword: Taking Action to Create Change
Judy Hertz

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

A book for the present moment.

Civil Eats

"In this cleverly titled collection,​ ​attorney Saru Jayaraman and rural sociologist Kathryn De Master conclude that corporations control much of our food because of 'their unbridled, unregulated power over our democracy.'"

Nature

"Bite Back is a valuable source that brings together research, activism and strategies for action."

The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener

Offers a series of roadmaps for activists who are looking to change the status quo.”
 

FoodPrint

"In this cleverly titled collection,​ ​attorney Saru Jayaraman and rural sociologist Kathryn De Master conclude that corporations control much of our food because of 'their unbridled, unregulated power over our democracy.'"

Nature Lib