Marketing

This stage of the food system is an exception to the site’s general focus on land and labor. Instead, the sources listed here discuss the power relationship between consumers and the food companies that specifically engineer food environments to encourage the purchase of calorie-dense and nutrient-poor food products.

As a result, the questions to consider in this section are less focused on how political ideology affects land and labor and more focused on how it affects consumers, their eating habits, and the resulting public health consequences.

Questions to consider: How is political ideology manifested in food environments and health outcomes? What does capitalism have to do with an increased risk of diet-related disease? What are the implications of that relationship?

Books

• Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat (Nestle, 2018)

Film

• Fed Up (2014)