Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index.

Introduction: Taking root : Rethinking school food in New Orleans ; Defining food justice ; Why a book on food justice? -- 1. An unjust food system : Growing and producing food : Slavery in the fields ; Farmworkers at tech margins ; The canary's song: chemicals in the factories and on the land ; Turning farms into factories ; Cows: "a great place to live?" ; Swine: stench and sludge ; Chickens: the Tyson way -- Accessing food : Grocery caps ; Supersizing supermarkets ; Cars to carts ; The Tesco invasion ; Convenient calorie culture ; Eating out, fast, cheap, and more -- Consuming food : Dismantling Malbouffe ; Downsizing cooking ; Health not on the label ; Overfed but poorly nourished ; Manipulating food choices -- Food politics : The people's department ; Farm bill debates ; School food politics ; Taming hunger ; Cultivating change -- The food system goes global : Chinese garlic in the United States, potato chips in China ; Black rice and banana republic ; Going global ; Wal-Mex takes over ; Globesity ; Food sovereignty: global struggles -- Food justice: action and strategies : Growing justice : The little farm in paper city ; The battles in the fields ; Immigrants breaking ground ; Reinventing farming ; Urban farmers -- Forging new food routes : A Philadelphia story ; At face value ; Farmers' markets for all? ; A share in the harvest: the CSA model ; Scaling up: the farm to school program -- Transforming the food experience : A slow food epiphany ; Going local ; Connecting with food ; A place-based culture -- A new food politics : Sowing the seeds of CFP ; Filling a vacuum: food policy councils ; State campaign ; School food revolution ; Empowering the hungry -- An emerging movement : Eat the view ; The multiple layers of food justice ; The change agenda ; Finding a voice.