ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses what is one of the greatest challenges facing society today—widespread hunger, malnutrition and obesity, particularly in low-income populations—by investigating a series of alternative approaches to food injustice and seeks to articulate an alternative basis for regulatory reform. As suggested by P. Allen in Mining for Justice in the Food System, “no other public issue is as accessible to people in their daily lives as that of food justice. The right to an adequate supply of nutritious food is, therefore, not only indispensable for the realization of human rights, but it is also inseparable from social justice as an equitable vision of society. The crises of obesity, malnutrition and food poverty are all issues which relate to public policy and social justice, but it is suggested that they would also benefit from being contextualized within a philosophical framework.
