Center Director Presents on Abolition and Nutrition at APHA
October 25, 2021
Center Director Mariana Chilton presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in Denver. Her talk entitled "Good nutrition demands abolition: The possibility of transformative solutions for food insecurity" focused on the ways public assistance programs impact food insecurity and health but often fall short. Efforts to improve wages and increase health care access also have limited impact.
She identified six transformative approaches that can reduce the need for nutrition assistance altogether: reparations for slavery (financial remuneration and guarantee of non-repeat), decolonization (supporting treaty rights of Indigenous peoples, returning land, oil, water, fishing, and hunting rights), universal basic income, universal health care, prison abolition, and immigration reform.