Pine Adam
Department of Geography and Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth, 324 Cina Hall. 1123 University Drive, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 USA.
University of Minnesota Duluth, 324 Cina Hall, 1024 University Drive, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 USA.
Agric Human Values. 2022 Dec 23:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s10460-022-10408-0.
This paper uses the survival strategies of food shelf clients to explore how food access, chronic disease, and spatial isolation shape the lives of low- and no- income urban citizens. The abundant availability of unhealthy food intersects with the presence of long-term health conditions to create a marginalized urban space where low quality commodity food is available, but exacerbates existing health conditions, is difficult to access, and does little to create food security. To survive, clients have normalized a sustenance strategy of going to multiple food serving sites, carrying food long-distances and using SNAP benefits to make ends meet. However, this nourishment strategy is time-consuming and unsafe, demanding that people put themselves in precarious positions and push their bodies farther physically than is healthy. These food procurement strategies exacerbate their marginalization. Qualitative data from food shelf users is used to develop a theory of wherein the struggle for food access is unhealthy and time-consuming, making it difficult to improve their standard of living.
本文运用食品救济站受助者的生存策略，来探究食物获取、慢性病和空间隔离如何塑造低收入及无收入城市居民的生活。不健康食品随处可得，再加上长期健康问题的存在，营造出一个边缘化的城市空间，那里有低质量的商品食品，但却会加剧现有的健康问题，获取困难，且对实现食品安全作用甚微。为了生存，受助者已将一种维持生计的策略常态化，即前往多个食物供应点、长途携带食物以及使用补充营养援助计划（SNAP）福利来维持收支平衡。然而，这种营养策略既耗时又不安全，要求人们将自己置于不稳定的境地，并让身体承受超出健康范围的体力消耗。这些食物采购策略加剧了他们的边缘化。来自食品救济站使用者的定性数据被用于构建一种理论，即获取食物的斗争既不健康又耗时，这使得改善他们的生活水平变得困难。
