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They follow an ideal of ecological sustainability and try to reconfigure relations between producers and consumers, bringing these actors into closer proximity, thus hoping to foster more democratic participation of actors in food provisioning (Goodman & DuPuis, 2005). A less convincing argument put forward by the authors is the idea of changing urban-rural relations with a supposed inversion and “shifting the starting point and locus of innovation of food networks from production/countryside to consumption/city” (Renting et al., 2012, p. 292). Such a framing denotes a dichotomy between two reified, clear-cut units , which does not account for empirical hybrid spatial interlinkages (urban sprawl, peri-urbanization, metropolization, regionalization, etc.) nor for overlaps in practices in all of these spacialities. More fundamentally, though, the rural/urban debate is not specific to CFN but can also be found in the other concepts discussed here. Finally, Renting et al. argue that CFN embody new discourses, knowledge, and symbolic frameworks that lead to “important new ‘traditions’ and references in agri-food system dynamics.” Again, I view this feature as important indeed, but it is not only specific to CFN. Alternative food networks are a combination of the structure of products, tools, and space.

• Calls for the need for bridging alternative food studies, found in literature, focus instead on merging events such as consumption and production, neglecting the importance of geographical or organisational divisions.
• Thus, AFN can maintain as much as overturn preexisting inequalities and power imbalances between participants (Allen et al., 2003), particularly in terms of labor, gender, and income.
• The first concerns the transformative, sustainable potential of everyday informal food practices such as processing own food, exchange of food with significant others, and use of home gardens and family allotments.

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She denied it, saying , “Well, we’re very good friends… but I don’t think that’s ever going to happen because I’m smarter than that.” In 2018, her choice in friends came back to haunt her again, when longtime friend Matt Lauer fell into disgrace. Fox News reported there had been rumors the two had been more than friends, but that, too, was denied. Sometimes, stars don’t even need to do anything to get caught up in scandalous drama, and that’s exactly what happened to Rachael Ray after Beyonce released “Lemonade” in 2016. According to Vanity Fair,it was a single lyric — “He only wants me when I’m not on there, He better call Becky with the good hair” — that sent Beyonce’s fanbase on a maniacal quest to find out who Becky really was. Cat Cora narrowly avoided jail time in 2012 when she was involved in a low-speed traffic accident while driving with a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.

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