The Political Language of Food

Introduction: How does food language function politically?
Samuel Boerboom

Chapter 1Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope: Self-Sufficiency, Counterculture, and Community
Jessica M. Prody

Chapter 2 Végétariens Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary Paris
Justin Killian

Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed: Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy Kitchen
Amy Pason

Chapter 4 Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods America
Casey Ryan Kelly

Chapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette
Melissa Boehm

Chapter 6Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and In/Security
Leda Cooks

Chapter 7Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy Organizations Market Language as Humane
Joseph L. Abisaid

Chapter 8Corn Allergy: Public Policy, Private Devastation
Kathy Brady

Chapter 9 Family Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy Packaging Labels
Jennifer L. Adams

Chapter 10Chipotle Mexican Grill's Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of "Commodity" Animals
Ellen W. Gorsevski

Chapter 11Corporate Colonization in the Market: Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing
of Food Discourse
Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton

Chapter 12Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy
Samuel Boerboom