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The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food-based messages and examine how such language -- including idioms, tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc. -- serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community, health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and rhetoric.

The traditional subsistence activities of Indigenous communities in Canada's subarctic are being affected by the impacts of climate change, compounding the effects of social, economic and political changes. Most research has focused on hunting and fishing activities, overlooking berry picking as an important socio-cultural activity and contributor to the diversity of food systems. We examined the vulnerability of cloudberry (referred to as 'bakeapple' consistent with local terminology) picking to environmental changes in the community of Cartwright, Labrador using semi-structured interviews (n = 18), field surveys, and satellite imagery. We identified the components of vulnerability including: the environmental changes affecting the abundance, quality, and ripening time of bakeapples (i.e., exposure), the characteristics of the community that affect how these changes have local impacts (i.e., sensitivity), and the ways in which the community is responding to environmental changes (i.e., adaptive capacity). Our results confirm that environmental changes related to permafrost, vegetation, and water have occurred at the bakeapple picking grounds with observed impacts on bakeapples. It is becoming increasingly difficult for bakeapple pickers to respond to variable growth as in the past because of changes in summer settlement patterns that place families farther from their bakeapple patches. We conclude that harvesters in Cartwright have high adaptive capacity to respond to environmental changes due to their knowledge of their bakeapple patches, and at present, socioeconomic changes have had a greater impact than environmental changes on their harvesting capacity.

Issue addressed: Globally and locally, environmental degradation (including climate change) and inequity pose major risks to health. While health promoters recognise the importance of both issues, they may be seen as separate agendas. This study investigated health promotion addressing both issues together. Methods: The study was an investigation of health promotion practice addressing environmental sustainability and equity, conducted in 2013, as part of a community-based participatory action research project with three Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) in Victoria, Australia, during 2009-2016. Results: Thirty-two local health promotion projects addressing both environmental sustainability and equity were identified. Analysis showed clusters of environmental, equity and health themes, particularly around: (a) caring for local environment, food, access to nature and Indigenous participation; (b) sustainability of housing, thermal comfort and reducing energy costs; and (c) sustainable and active transport. The study also found a marked decline in the number of PCPs in Victoria identifying environmental sustainability as a priority in 2013, compared to 2009. Analysis of helpful factors and challenges to practice identified by research participants, suggests interrelated political, organisational and discursive factors contributed to this decline. Conclusions: The study suggests local health promotion can contribute to the development of societies that are more ecologically sustainable and more equitable. However, the challenges suggest broader advocacy is required to support local action.

\"The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities. Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food-based messages and examine how such language--including idioms, tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.--serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community, health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and rhetoric\" -- Back cover.

The article highlights and contextualizes the tendency to use food and eating-related terminology within discourses on multiculturalism in order to consider the potential significance and larger implications of this tendency. Roland Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu’s discussions on the intersections of taste, consumption, and social hierarchies are placed in conversation with critical insights offered by various cultural theorists including Stuart Hall and Ellen D. Wu that foreground identity politics in a nuanced manner to form a critical framework from which to structure and guide the article’s analysis. These theoretical discourses are extrapolated by engaging with “My Banana Story,” an Asian American activist-initiated art project that foregrounds issues of identity politics. The article argues that food-related language utilized to discuss intercultural interaction, while having the capacity to appear seemingly insignificant and apolitical, is structured on a consumerist logic of consumption that produces a white monocultural North American identity as the implicit norm.

The most recent data from the Current Population Survey indicate that the hunger and food insecurity situation in the US has improved, at least as of Sep 2000. Time will tell whether hunger and food insecurity ultimately can be eliminated in the US, but to make greater progress in this reduction, dietitians should reevaluate their approaches to hunger and food insecurity issues and research.