Technological modifications of food are being marketed as novel products that will enhance consumer choice and nutritional value. A recent manifestation is nanotechnology, entering the global food chain through food production, pesticides, vitamins, and food packaging. This article presents a detailed literature review on risk and benefit perceptions of technological developments for food and agriculture, including our own research from US deliberative workshops on nanotechnologies. The article suggests that many of the public concerns discussed in the literature on biotechnology in food are being raised in qualitative and quantitative studies on nanotechnologies for food: although nanotechnologies are generally perceived to be beneficial, many people express particular uneasiness about nanotechnological modifications of food. The article argues that these concerns represent material examples of unresolved social issues involving technologies and the food industry, including questions about the benefits of nanotechnology for food, and the heightened values attached to food as a cultural domain.
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Public Debates about Technological Modifi cation of Food
Jennifer B. Rogers-Brown, Christine Shearer, and Barbara Herr Harthorn
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2011
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- 149–169 (21 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Aug 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 574–575 (1 total)
Jakob Klein
The article discusses recent attempts by an environmental NGO to promote the consumption of organic foods among residents in Kunming, Southwest China. Far from being elitist, activists engaged with popular environmental culture and with widespread concerns around health and food safety, and echoed advertisers' messages that associated the ‘healthfulness’ of organic foods with ‘nature’. The article also discusses two private organic food enterprises. Like the NGO, these enterprises attempted to both engage with popular concerns and educate consumers, and it is argued that the study of environmentalism and ethical consumption in urban China should include both NGOs and profit‐oriented enterprises.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Feb 2009
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- Research Article
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- 74–89 (15 total)
Certification Regimes in the Global Agro-Food System and the Transformation of the Nature-Society Relationship
Ecological Modernization or Modernization of Ecology?
Md Saidul Islam
wealthy nations of the global North ( Marsden 1997 ; Westgren 2004 ). Consumer concern has centered on not only long-established issues like food safety and environmental degradation but also questions of labor exploitation and gender disparity in food
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 87–110 (24 total)
A French Paradox?
Toward an Explanation of Inconsistencies between Framing and Policies
Henri Bergeron, Patrick Castel, and Abigail C. Saguy
variations on these themes several times since then) has dominated French obesity politics—defining both economic interests and cultural representations of agriculture and food practices. 31 In the 1990s, however, new principles of food safety and their
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 110–130 (21 total)
Kosher Biotech
Between Religion, Regulation, and Globalization
Johan Fischer
we shall see below. A study by Lytton (2013) shows that the US kosher market is an example of successful private sector regulation in an era of growing public concern over the government’s ability to ensure food safety. From the 1990s onward, the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 52–67 (16 total)
From Urban Agriculture to Urban Food
Food System Analysis Based on Interaction Between Research, Policy, and Society
Heidrun Moschitz, Jan Landert, Christian Schader, and Rebekka Frick
food is produced in Basel” (consumer K10). An issue often raised in connection with food processing is food safety. Looking at the related activities of Basel’s administration, our sustainability analysis revealed that the city undertakes food safety
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 113–134 (22 total)
Spaces for Transdisciplinary Dialogues on the Relationship between Local Communities and Their Environment
The Case of a Rural Community in the Calchaquí Valley (Salta, Argentina)
Marta Crivos, María Rosa Martínez, Laura Teves, and Carolina Remorini
programmes aim at improving food safety and sovereignty and at favouring the participation and organisation of vulnerable sectors of society. 6 Extension project (2003–2004 and 2006–2007): ‘Parasitosis y enfermedad parasitaria en poblaciones periurbanas y
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 27–34 (8 total)
Becoming a global citizen?
Developing community-facing learning in the social sciences
Jane Booth
of food are wasted in UK households every year ( Clayton n.d. ) and 1.9 million tonnes of food are wasted by the food industry every year in the United Kingdom ( Fareshare n.d. ). At the First International Food Safety Conference, supported by the
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 60–88 (29 total)
Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene
Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity
Yogi Hale Hendlin
and Koch 2015 ). Many chemical analyses look at chemicals in isolation rather than in their formulations as commercially available and applied. Regulatory agencies such as the European Union's EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) take a “controlled
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 181–202 (22 total)