- 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
Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities
Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities
- Chapter:
- (p.93) 6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and farming communities
- Source:
- A Handbook of Food Crime
- Author(s):
Jinky Leilanie Del Prado-Lu
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Understanding the health risks of farmers and farming communities is essential in elaborating the phenomenon of food crime. This chapter argues that the production of agricultural food products is inimical to the health and safety of those who produce them. This is an ironic situation where the providers of food – farmers – become vulnerable, ill or injured, or disabled, or even die in the process of agricultural production. This is compounded by the lack of social and health protection for farmers, and absence of institutional support for farming in many developing countries despite the fact that farming is the most elemental and basic means of food production in society. This chapter argues that agricultural practices arising from market-oriented agricultural policies of institutions and governments present as food crime, and there should be conscious and concerted considerations at the institutional level, in including ecologic, health, and social implications of food production systems.
Keywords: farmers, farming community, adverse health risks, pesticides, policy advocacy in agriculture
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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
