ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the intersections between climate justice, food systems, and individual food choice, acknowledging and exploring how applying systemic global problems to personal action is wickedly complicated and often contradictory. Personal food choice has emerged as an important avenue for people concerned with the ecological and social effects of their daily lives. If the climate justice motivation in one’s food choice is related only to emissions, it is possible to make real efforts toward eating a more climate-friendly diet. Even folks who have the privilege and inclination to make values-based food choices may possess a variety of different values. Food and agriculture are inextricably tied to climate change, in both causes and effects. There are ways to eat a lower-emissions diet, although there is so little transparency in food chains that such efforts are not always easy to achieve.
