ABSTRACT
Poor and minority populations do not only have larger numbers of childhood obesity in the United States, they have across the board significant health disparities with wealthier white children. Reproductive labor has a place in Marx and Engels’s theory, but times have significantly changed. Marx and Engels understood the family household as the locus of both visible and invisible reproductive labor, for both for the wealthy and the poor, even if the wealthy often have servants to perform this labor. Kim Q. Hall argues that the idea of alimentary ableism tends to evoke a metaphysics of purity, where “bad” food consists of kinds more removed from their “natural” state. Karl Marx gives the example of appreciation of art as something that arises from the introduction of the product to the public who can then create a need for more art. Existential angst about suffering and death will follow us in any new political regime.
