- 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, genetics and knowledge politics
Food, genetics and knowledge politics
- Chapter:
- (p.265) 16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics
- Source:
- A Handbook of Food Crime
- Author(s):
Reece Walters
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter explores the issues of genetic technologies and the politics and power of food production and distribution. It argues that food crime must also be understood within the discourses, debates and contestations surrounding ‘knowledge’ and its application to food security, distribution and consumption. Those in positions of state and corporate power that have the means to shape the contours of global food trade, notably what is safe to eat and what is not, requires an examination of the ways in which ‘knowledge politics’ plays a crucial role in shaping public discourse and influences political debate. In doing so, this chapter extends definitions of ‘food crime’ to include a political economy analysis of food production, distribution and consumption and the ways in which ‘knowledge’ becomes imperative in a global politics of power and profit.
Keywords: genetically modified food, knowledge politics, green criminology, corporate power, food crime
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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
