2025
Food Fight: How What We Eat Is Weaponized
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.
REVIEWS
Eye-opening, soul-searing, and inspirational, [Food Fight] is a call to wake-up and create a world in which food no longer renders death and devastation, but rather food is what God intends it to be: nourishment sustaining life, health, and cultural integrity. De La Torre’s luminous book is much needed for all who seek healing and liberation in the face of systemic evil.
– Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, author of Resisting Structural Evil, Building a Moral Economy and Graduate Theological Union professor of Christian ethics
This thoughtful, timely, and actionable book shows readers what is at stake in food legacies, food practices, and industrial food production as shaped by colonialism and weaponization of food from past to present. Food Fight is a book in pursuit of better food futures.
– Christiana Zenner, Fordham University associate professor of theology and ethics
Very valuable contribution to the rising field of the ethical, religious, and political dimensions of food. The essays are both sophisticated and accessible, a rare combination, and thus the book would be great in the classroom and for the general public. Highly recommended.
– Roger S. Gottlieb, author of Morality and the Environmental Crisis and Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor of philosophy
