- 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 <i>Salmonella</i> 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 crimes, harms and carnist technologies
Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies
- Chapter:
- (p.295) 18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies
- Source:
- A Handbook of Food Crime
- Author(s):
Linnea Laestadius
Jan Deckers
Stephanie Baran
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter explores some of the ways in which technologies designed to meet human demand for animal based foods, which this chapter terms carnist technologies, facilitate or remedy food crimes and harms. First-generation carnist technologies designed to achieve increased efficiency in animal rearing, as well as second-generation technologies for ‘happy meat’, cellular agriculture, and plant-based analogues of animal products as are all considered. The latter two technologies hold promise for reducing some of the key harms tied to demand for animal products, but leave other harms unaddressed. None of the technologies are found to fully challenge carnism, and may also perpetuate or even compound more systemic food crimes given the extent to which developers and promoters have embraced neoliberal principles. The benefits of these technologies should be recognised, but advocates must acknowledge the limitations of a techno-fix approach to what is ultimately a social problem requiring more significant reforms.
Keywords: carnism, cellular agriculture, technological fix, meat substitutes, food systems
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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 <i>Salmonella</i> 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
