Critical metabolism: Towards a metabolic justice?

Drawing on meetings and workshops involving an international and inter-disciplinary team, this commentary focuses on the relationship between metabolism and critical public health. We relate global indicators of metabolic ill-health to changes in the ways in which metabolisms are being conceptualized and lived. As metabolism is increasingly framed in social-ecological rather than individual-somatic terms, we highlight works that identify forms of metabolic injustice. While we welcome these altered frames, we also note that the multifaceted nature of metabolism poses a challenge for conventional forms of justice. The purpose of our commentary is to open debate on what just metabolisms might entail.