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.
Brief description: Allison Gray is a PhD Candidate at the University of Windsor. She pursues a diverse range of research interests across the areas of food studies, green criminology, theoretical sociology, and the intersection of humanity, nonhuman animals, and the environment. She is especially keen on studying the sociology of food choice.
Review Quotes: "Essential. . .The first of its kind. . .The quality of the scholarship is strong, and despite the rigorously multidisciplinary approach the editors make the text accessible to general academic readers."-- "Choice"