Food Crime Inequality: How Food Harms Fall Disproportionately on the Powerless

In this paper, the author lays out many of the major harms associated with consumption of poor food quality (e.g., ultra-processed food) and demonstrates how these harms are not equally distributed across society. That is, harms such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and so forth fall disproportionately on the poor and people of color, particularly African Americans. Housed in the context of “food crime,” the author argues that much more needs to be done to counter these harms in the interest of “food justice.”