About food justice and food sovereignty. Industrial versus natural food

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Health - Nutritional Science, , language: English, abstract: Industrial food producing corporations provide consumers little to no options to choose healthy and environmentally friendly food. This lack of choices violates people's food sovereignty, or rights to easily access nutritious, safe, and local food. Industrially produced food is packed with high levels of preservatives, sugar, sodium, and synthetic chemicals; however there are alternatives such as local farmer's markets, but it seems that they only attract a niche category of pretentious hipsters as the customer base. Upon my visits to the local farmer's market, I discovered that these stereotypes of exclusivity were not accurate and that farmer's markets had a surprisingly large variety of options that I could choose from.