ABSTRACT
Most grocery shopping in Aberdeen is conducted along a strip of Sixth Avenue that includes a Wal-Mart, Target, most of the major fast food restaurants and chain hotels, and large supermarkets. This chapter deals with the personal anecdotes because they involve concern over changes in the landscapes of social reproduction, particularly those involved in what is being recognized as a global food system. It shows that justice requires considering the geography—the landscapes—not just of the food system, as Melanie DuPuis and David Goodman rightly point out as essential, but also the landscapes of social reproduction that are so complicit with the historical, material and territorial construction of our food systems. In many ways, the Thullners’ vision for Campbell County Family Meats epitomizes the alternative agrifood networks many food activists see as a way to create a more just food system, in that it would create ‘short food supply chains’ in order to optimize relations of proximity between producers and consumers.
