FOOD AND RISK in the US and UK: Seattle and Newcastle Academics, Firefighters, Motorcyclists and Others Reflect on Organic and Local Food - Couverture souple

Scholten, Bruce A.

 
9783844313420: FOOD AND RISK in the US and UK: Seattle and Newcastle Academics, Firefighters, Motorcyclists and Others Reflect on Organic and Local Food
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3844313427 ISBN 13 : 9783844313420
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Food scares such as mad cow disease (BSE), concern for animal welfare, GMOs, the environment and social justice in conventional, global food systems prompt consumer reflection on organic or local food in alternative food networks. But how does reflection become consumption on a range of consumers around one city? How does it compare to people across the world? This doctoral study held focus groups with academics, firefighters, motorcyclists and others, and surveyed over 400 people comparing Seattle, US (hearth to Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft & Starbucks) to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (crucible of the Industrial Revolution now transitioning to a service economy). Preference for local food is unearthed along with interest in organics. The book concludes that if organic or local activists from one city were parachuted into another, a common geographical imagination ensures adaptation to the new city. Addressing Michael Pollan's (2001) warning that a corporate organic-industrial complex can dominate family-scale farmer cooperatives, the book showcases a consumer boycott of megadairy brands whose cows seldom escape confined feedlots, in what are dubbed the USDA organic pasture wars.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Food scares such as mad cow disease (BSE), concern for animal welfare, GMOs, the environment and social justice in conventional, global food systems prompt consumer reflection on organic or local food in alternative food networks. But how does reflection become consumption on a range of consumers around one city? How does it compare to people across the world? This doctoral study held focus groups with academics, firefighters, motorcyclists and others, and surveyed over 400 people comparing Seattle, US (hearth to Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft & Starbucks) to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (crucible of the Industrial Revolution now transitioning to a service economy). Preference for local food is unearthed along with interest in organics. The book concludes that if organic or local activists from one city were parachuted into another, a common geographical imagination ensures adaptation to the new city. Addressing Michael Pollan's (2001) warning that a corporate organic-industrial complex can dominate family-scale farmer cooperatives, the book showcases a consumer boycott of megadairy brands whose cows seldom escape confined feedlots, in what are dubbed the USDA organic pasture wars.

Biographie de l'auteur

Bruce A. Scholten is Honorary Research Fellow in Durham University Geography Department, UK. He has written on agricultural policy for a variety of international publications, and is the author of India?s White Revolution: Operation Flood, Food Aid and Development (2010 Tauris/Palgrave/Viva). He grew up on a dairy farm near Lynden, Washington, USA.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3844313427
ISBN 13 
9783844313420
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
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