What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Jill Lindsey Harrison (Part 1) Stakeholders' accounts of pesticide drift in California differ greatly. Regulators and the crop protection industry see an occasional problem resulting from applicator mistakes. Environmental justice activists and community members see a persistent, daily problem affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Sociologist Jill Lindsey Harrison explains how these discrepant readings of reality result from different understandings of justice and ways to achieve it. She links justice concepts to popular food movement values like knowing your farmer and voting for organic and local food with your fork. She finds that by turning their back on fighting chemical intensive agriculture and preferring voluntary actions, activists effectively spurn tools needed to obtain food justice for all eaters.