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3 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1251 (2013)
The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre3 and id is 1262 raw text is: The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA Andrea Freeman* Introduction ....................................................1251 I. Food Oppression.................................... ..................1254 II. Milk Does a Body Good? .................................................1257 III. Structural and Cultural Analysis of the USDA's Promotion of the Dairy Industry .......................................1263 A. Structural Analysis.. ...........................................1263 1. Challenges Facing the USDA as a Multi-Role Agency.................1263 2. Federal Dietary Guidelines ...................... .......1264 3. Distribution ........................................1266 B. Cultural Analysis ........................................1268 1. Nutritional Racism...................................1268 2. Healthism, Biomedical Individualism, and Biological Race.........1269 i. Healthism. .......................................1270 ii. Biomedical individualism ...................... .....1273 iii. Biological race........................ ...........1273 3. The Whiteness of Food Culture ........... ...........1274 C. Fast Food and Food Deserts .. ....................... ........1276 Conclusion: Legal Strategies ........................................1277 INTRODUCTION The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), as the entity responsible for the federal Dietary Guidelines, encourages Americans to avoid * Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Thanks to Lisa Ikemoto, Angela P. Harris, Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose, Margaret Hu, Grace Yoo, Alex Wang, Neelum Arya, Alexandra Ledyard, Kim Pearson, and Lauren Kaminsky, as well as attendees of the 2013 Yale Food Systems symposium, NYU Gallatin, the 2013 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, the 2013 Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, the 2012 Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Conference, and the 2011 UCLA Critical Race Studies symposium, who provided valuable feedback on this project. I am also grateful to Angelique Arnold and Fern Ann Grether for excellent research assistance. 1251

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