A handbook of food crime : immoral and illegal practices in the food industry and what to do about them / Allison Gray and Ronald Hinch.
Material type:
TextSeries: Policy Press scholarship onlinePublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: - text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9781447336051
- Food industry and trade -- Corrupt practices
- Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
- Food law and legislation
- Food adulteration and inspection -- Law and legislation
- Food security
- Agricultural industries -- Law and legislation
- Agricultural industries -- Corrupt practices
- Nutrition policy
- True Crime
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- 364.168 23
- HD9000.5
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 text, 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.
Specialized.
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