A handbook of food crime : immoral and illegal practices in the food industry and what to do about them / edited by Allison Gray and Ronald Hinch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Allison, editor.

Hinch, Ronald, editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--Corrupt practices.

Food industry and trade.

Food adulteration and inspection.

Food law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 441 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Section I. Thinking about food crime

A food crime perspective / Allison Gray

Food crime without criminals : agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest / Martha McMahon and Kora Liegh Glatt

The social construction of illegality with local food systems / Marcello De Rosa, Ferro Trabalzi and Tiziana Pagnani

Section II. Farming and food production

Ethical challenges facing farm managers / Harvey S. James Jr

Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state / Ronald Hinch

Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities / Jinky Leilanie Del Prado-Lu

Section III. Processing, marketing and accessing food

Agency and responsibility : the case of the food industry and obesity / Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Robert Phillips

The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration / Louis Manning and Jan Mei Soon

Prohibitive property practices : the impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment / Sugandhi del Canto and Rachel Engler-Stringer

Section IV. Corporate food and food safety

Regulating food fraud : public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands / Antonia Corini and Bernd van der Meulen

Mass salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America : lessons in state-corporate food crime / Paul Leighton

Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism / Joseph Yaw Asomah and Hongming Cheng

Section V. Food trade and movement

Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals : a closer look at Ontario's "pig trial" / Amy Fitzgerald and Wesley Tourangeau

Coming together to combat food fraud : regulatory networks in th EU / Richard Hyde and Ashley Savage

Fair trade laws, labels, and ethics / Will Low and Eileen Davenport

Section VI. Technologies and food

Food, genetics and knowledge politics / Reece Walters

Technology novel food and crime / Juanjuan Sun and Xiaocen Liu

Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies / Linnea Laestadius, Jan Deckers and Stephanie Baran

Section VII. Green food

Farming and climate change / Rob White and Jasmine Yeates

Food waste (non)regulation / Michael A. Long and Michael J. Lynch

Responding to neo-liberal diets : school meal programmes in Brazil and Canada / Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca and Richardo César Barbosa Júnior

Section VIII. Questioning and consuming food

Counter crimes and food democracy : suspects and citizens remaking the food system / Sue Booth, John Coveney and Dominique Paturel

Consumer reactions to food safety scandals : a research model and moderating effects / Camilla Barbarossa

Resisting food crime and the problem of the 'food police' / Allison Gray.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4473-3603-8

1-4473-3605-4

1-4473-3602-X

OCLC:

1031952547