- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
-
1 A food crime perspective -
2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest -
3 The social construction of illegality within local food systems -
4 Ethical challenges facing farm managers -
5 Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state -
6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities -
7 Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity -
8 The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration -
9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment -
10 Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands -
11 Mass Salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime -
12 Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism -
13 Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’ -
14 Coming together to combat food crime: Regulatory networks in the EU -
15 Fair trade laws, labels and ethics -
16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics -
17 Technology, novel food and crime -
18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies -
19 Farming and climate change -
20 Food waste (non)regulation -
21 Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes in Brazil and Canada -
22 Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system -
23 Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects -
24 Responding to food crime and the threat of the ‘food police’ - Index
Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
- Chapter:
- (p.27) 2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
- Source:
- A Handbook of Food Crime
- Author(s):
Martha McMahon
Kora Liegh Glatt
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter argues that the slow violence experienced by those in more traditional and alternative ways of food provisioning, which developed within public and private agri-food-safety governance, functions as a kind of protection racket that enables the dominance of particular epistemic, political and economic interests. While the institutional enactments of slow violence are typically not against the law they can be labelled criminal within a colloquial use of the term, not least because they are complicit with social injustice, exclusions and the rendering of many vulnerable to food insecurity and climate change. New feminist epistemologies, ontologies, and feminist ethics support a concern for care and justice while keeping people safe, as well as offer resources for better kinds of governance and would be more responsive to the contemporary opportunities from agro-ecology and food sovereignty.
Keywords: agri-food-safety governance, food sovereignty, feminism, food-safety, slow violence
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- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
-
1 A food crime perspective -
2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest -
3 The social construction of illegality within local food systems -
4 Ethical challenges facing farm managers -
5 Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state -
6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities -
7 Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity -
8 The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration -
9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment -
10 Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands -
11 Mass Salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime -
12 Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism -
13 Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’ -
14 Coming together to combat food crime: Regulatory networks in the EU -
15 Fair trade laws, labels and ethics -
16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics -
17 Technology, novel food and crime -
18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies -
19 Farming and climate change -
20 Food waste (non)regulation -
21 Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes in Brazil and Canada -
22 Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system -
23 Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects -
24 Responding to food crime and the threat of the ‘food police’ - Index
