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
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Queer Sinofuturism
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Gabriel Remy-Handfield
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Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Laurent Berger
technological and organizational innovations, particularly in urban planning, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, renewable energy, nuclear fusion, and ecosystems protection programs. The contemporary development of carbon capture/storage and
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Environmental Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies
Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist
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In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
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Veronica Davidov
variety of fields pertaining to medicine, biotechnology, nanotechnology, etcetera. For instance, Ge Zhang (2012) provides an overview of what biomimicry can contribute to biomedical research in areas such as regenerative medicine or in tissue engineering
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
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