@article{ETD,
      author = {Spencer, Alaina},
      url = {http://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7718},
      title = {Want amid plenty: the capitalist paradox of hunger and  food waste},
      publisher = {Marylhurst University: Oregon Health and Science  University},
      abstract = {The issue of want amid plenty, or people going hungry when  there is an abundance of food, has long plagued the  capitalist society. People have suggested that want amid  plenty is a paradox, but this thesis suggests that want  amid plenty is a product of food's status as a commodity.  As such, this research addresses the persistence of the  idea that want amid plenty is a paradox in the food system  in order to understand how agricultural industry's and food  relief organizations' discourse influences the general  public's understanding of want amid plenty so that we can  reveal gaps in discourse and move towards a more just food  system. To do this, I ask one overall research question:  How might existing discourse enable or prevent the general  public's understanding of want amid plenty? In examining  discourse, it appears that the agricultural industry's  response to the 2007-8 food crisis played a major role in  allowing the agricultural industry to frame want amid  plenty as a paradox. In addition, donations, government  funding, and time constraints greatly dictate the way food  relief organizations frame want amid plenty, causing many  of them to not question food's status as a commodity. The  general public's understanding of want amid plenty as a  product of food's status as a commodity is the first step  in moving towards addressing the root problem. We must also  enact stricter policies focused on feeding people, consider  viewing food in a different light, such as food as a public  good or commons, and define and address want amid plenty at  the community scale.},
      number = {ETD},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6083/0k225b644},
      recid = {7718},
      address = {2018},
}