Food Fight | How What We Eat Is Weaponized (De La Torre)

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Facing the Oppression in Our Food

From global perspectives, Food Fight unveils the intersections of food, environmental injustice, and social disenfranchisement. Miguel A. De La Torre once again invites readers into the essential theological work of decentering colonialism, asking:

"How can food ever taste pleasing once we are cognizant of its long-complicit history with blood-soaked oppression?

"What if humans are not the center of the social narrative, but objectified by food and those from whom food profits?"

Food Fight: How What We Eat Is Weaponized is a palate-cleanser, washing away the objectification of food-as-convenience, restoring food-as-story to our senses.  

Contributing writers to Food Fight are scholars and faith leaders, historians and organizers. They come to this work from South Africa and from India, from the Osage Nation and the Kingdom of Tonga, from studies in Christianity and in Buddhism, and a shared passion for liberation work.

"Food Fight is a book where anti-colonial analysis, political ecologies, and geographically-attuned contemporary foodways convene in pursuit of better food futures." ~Dr. Christiana Zenner, Fordham University

Also from Miguel A. De La Torre:
Gonna Trouble the Water
Shifting Climates, Shifting People

About the Editor/Author

Miguel A. De La Torre is an international scholar-activist, tenured as professor of social ethics and Latino/a studies at Iliff School of Theology. A Fulbright scholar, he has published over thirty-five books, five of which won national awards. De La Torre is the recipient of the 2020 AAR Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2021 Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award.

Paperback 6" x 9"
ISBN 978-0-8298-0072-2
2025