Nestle Marion
Dissent. 2012;59(2):15-9. doi: 10.1353/dss.2012.0028.
In the fall of 2011, I taught a graduate food studies course at New York University devoted to the farm bill, a massive and massively opaque piece of legislation passed most recently in 2008 and up for renewal in 2012. The farm bill supports farmers, of course, but also specifies how the United States deals with such matters as conservation, forestry, energy policy, organic food production, international food aid, and domestic food assistance. My students came from programs in nutrition, food studies, public health, public policy, and law, all united in the belief that a smaller scale, more regionalized, and more sustainable food system would be healthier for people and the planet.
2011年秋，我在纽约大学教授一门食品研究方向的研究生课程，该课程聚焦于农业法案。这是一项规模庞大且极为晦涩难懂的立法，它最近一次通过是在2008年，并将于2012年进行重新授权。农业法案当然是为了扶持农民，但它也明确规定了美国在诸如保护、林业、能源政策、有机食品生产、国际食品援助以及国内食品援助等事务上的处理方式。我的学生来自营养学、食品研究、公共卫生、公共政策和法律等专业项目，他们都坚信一个规模更小、更具地方特色且更可持续的食品体系对人类和地球会更有益健康。
