The Appalachia Accessible Food Network is a collaborative project to accelerate the distribution of local foods into Appalachian Ohio communities by strengthening entry, manufacturing, and consumption parts of a neighborhood food value chain. The collaboration has obtained beneficiant funding from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation. While Food Network programming usually does not explicitly promote merchandise, writer Cheri Ketchum argues that Food Network advertises a way of life that’s according to the norms of consumer culture. Ketchum argues that Food Network deliberately chooses non-controversial programming, quite than programming which challenges aspects of client tradition corresponding to food waste and environmental impacts of …