ABSTRACT
Editors’ Note: This chapter engages with the themes of colonial, discourse, race, and science. Harris examines Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), and specifically Sally Fallon’s “Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Children” (included in this volume), which argues for the importance of traditional and indigenous diets and serves as a challenge to hegemonic nutrition. Harris notes that the WAPF unintentionally reproduces problematic and oppressive racial and colonial discourses in arguing for the importance of traditional or indigenous dietary knowledge. In exploring how the WAPF succeeds and falters in its resistance to hegemonic nutrition, Harris opens a discussion about how best to valorize traditional knowledge in a society that places great worth on ways of knowing based in Western science.
