Name: Theo Cornick

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Access to Healthy Foods

Date of Fieldwork: April 20, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):WQED Pittsburgh – Our Food Insecurity Crisis

Type of Fieldwork: Documentary

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

I watched the documentary “Starved.” This was about a variety of food-related issues, particularly in Pennsylvania. This was about how people couldn’t afford healthy food or were cut off from proper nutrition because there were no grocery stores nearby.

I did lots of work with the term food Deserts but they also used a term, “Food Swamps” as one step worse then food deserts. This problem seems to be getting better but it is important that we help prevent it. This documentary helped me understand how food insecurity doesn’t always have to be a financial thing.