ABSTRACT

This article articulates a robust study of potentially harmful trend toward personalized nutrition through an examination of contemporary conversations and theories surrounding genetic science, race, identity, health, and food. It makes that case that genetic ancestry kits, and the nutritional recommendations that stem from them, represent a misunderstanding of current genetic science and the capabilities of genetic technologies. I argue that the most troubling outcomes these applications are likely to have is in the further reification and perpetuation of racialized and racializing knowledge and discourses. I also make the case that trends in personalized nutrition are likely to produce yet another locus of inequality based on disparities in access to the ‘right’ foods, the iniquitous distribution of dietary capital, the further responsibilization of health to individuals, increased surveillance, and a more impoverished and functionalized relationship to food itself.

摘要

本文通过考察有关遗传科学，种族，身份，健康和食品的当代对话和理论，对个性化营养的潜在有害趋势进行了深入研究。事实证明，遗传祖先试剂盒以及由此产生的营养建议代表了对当前遗传科学和遗传技术功能的误解。我认为这些应用程序可能带来的最令人不安的结果是种族化和种族化的知识与话语的进一步具体化和永久化。我还假设，个性化营养的趋势可能会基于获取“正确”食物的差异，饮食资本的不平等分配，