The impetus for the topics under investigation can best be characterized by this passage from Food Justice:
 
Issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender are at the forefront of a social justice agenda. When viewed through the food justice lens, they are also a key part of how we talk about food. Historically, food groups have struggled to effectively address the contentious issues associated with questions of class, race, ethnicity, and gender…The language of food justice ensures that these core issues are not ignored but rather placed at the center of the discussion regarding how, by whom, and to what ends the food system is transformed. (Gottlieb and Joshi, 2010, p. 229).

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Story submitted by High School History Teachers, Kevin Slick and Jennifer Stolper Muenz.