A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them
ISBN-10
1447356284
ISBN-13
9781447356288
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2019-10-01
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Ronald, Allison, Gray

Description

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously. In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies. Bringing together the best contemporary research in this area, they argue for the importance of thinking criminologically about food and propose radical solutions to the realities of unjust food systems.

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