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Disabled Bodies and Food

According to a 2015 report by the CDC, 53 million people in the United States live with a disability. People with disabilities are more likely to be living in poverty and have reduced access to food. Disability and food justice advocates call for a both shift in public perception of disability as well as an increase in infrastructure supporting people with disabilities Disability and Food Studies scholars have discussed the way in which food becomes a site in which ableism is perpetuated, whether difficulty obtaining food in grocery stores, inaccessible restaurants or discourses about “food as medicine”, positing disability as something to be eliminated. Disability scholar Kim Hall termed these discourses “alimentary ableism”, critiquing the ways that they create dominant ideas about food and food justice.