A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

455 Pages·2019·5.225 MB·English

by  Gray, Allison, Hinch, Ronald

Immoral and illegal practices
in the food industry and
what to do about them
Edited by
Allison Gray
Ronald Hinch
A HANDBOOK OF
FOOD CRIME
Immoral and illegal practices in the food
industry and what to do about them
Edited by Allison Gray and Ronald Hinch
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Contents
List of tables and figures vi
Notes on contributors vii
Introduction 1
Ronald Hinch and Allison Gray
Section I: Thinking about food crime 9
1 A food crime perspective 11
Allison Gray
2 Food crime without criminals: Agri-food safety governance as a 27
protection racket for dominant political and economic interest
Martha McMahon and Kora Liegh Glatt
3 The social construction of illegality within local food systems 43
Marcello De Rosa, Ferro Trabalzi and Tiziana Pagnani
Section II: Farming and food production 59
4 Ethical challenges facing farm managers 61
Harvey S. James Jr
5 Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state 77
Ronald Hinch
6 Impact of hazardous substances and pesticides on farmers and 93
farming communities
Jinky Leilanie Del Prado-Lu
Section III: Processing, marketing and accessing food 109
7 Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry 111
and obesity
Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Robert Phillips
8 The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration 127
Louise Manning and Jan Mei Soon
9 Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive 141
covenants on the built food environment
Sugandhi del Canto and Rachel Engler-Stringer
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Section IV: Corporate food and food safety 157
10 Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in 159
the EU, Italy and the Netherlands
Antonia Corini and Bernd van der Meulen
11 Mass Salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation 175
of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime
Paul Leighton
12 Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism 193
Joseph Yaw Asomah and Hongming Cheng
Section V: Food trade and movement 211
13 Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: 213
A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’
Amy Fitzgerald and Wesley Tourangeau
14 Coming together to combat food fraud: Regulatory networks 229
in the EU
Richard Hyde and Ashley Savage
15 Fair trade laws, labels and ethics 245
Will Low and Eileen Davenport
Section VI: Technologies and food 263
16 Food, genetics and knowledge politics 265
Reece Walters
17 Technology, novel food and crime 281
Juanjuan Sun and Xiaocen Liu
18 Food crimes, harms and carnist technologies 295
Linnea Laestadius, Jan Deckers and Stephanie Baran
Section VII: Green food 313
19 Farming and climate change 315
Rob White and Jasmine Yeates
20 Food waste (non)regulation 331
Michael A. Long and Michael J. Lynch
21 Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programmes 347
in Brazil and Canada
Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca and Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior
Section VIII: Questioning and consuming food 365
22 Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens 367
remaking the food system
Sue Booth, John Coveney and Dominique Paturel
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CONTENTS
23 Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model 385
and moderating effects
Camilla Barbarossa
24 Resisting food crime and the problem of the ‘food police’ 403
Allison Gray
Index 421
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List of tables and figures
Tables
7.1 Actor-agency matrix 114
8.1 Definitions of food fraud 128
13.1 Comparison of maximum journey lengths 217
Figures
3.1 The economy continuum 51
3.2 Case study positioning along the continuum 54
4.1 Ethical behaviour framework 65
23.1 Appraisal of food-harms, attributions of blame, non-behavioural 388
and behavioural responses toward a faulty food brand, and
moderating variables
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Notes on contributors
Joseph Yaw Asomah is a PhD candidate at the University of
Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interests generally revolve around
government accountability, social justice, white-collar and corporate
crime, anti-corruption movements and policing.
Stephanie Baran is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. Her research interests
include racism, capitalism and feminist theory.
Camilla Barbarossa is Associate Professor in Marketing at Toulouse
Business School, Department of Marketing and International Business,
France. Her primary research interests are in the field of ethical and
pro-environmental consumption. Specifically, she is interested in
analysing consumers’ adoption of environmentally friendly alternatives,
and consumers’ cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to
corporate social (ir)responsibility.
Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior is an MA student at the University
of Calgary, Canada. His research interests include food sovereignty,
urban food activism and the spatiality of contentious politics.
Sue Booth is an academic in the College of Medicine and Public
Health at Flinders University, Australia. Her research interests include
food security, food charity and alternative food systems.
Hongming Cheng is Professor of Crime, Law and Justice in the
Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
His research focuses on white-collar and corporate crime in the
context of globalisation and regional regulatory cooperation. He also
studies public attitudes towards the police, land rights, comparative
criminology and the sociology of China.
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Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca is an Assistant Professor at
Londrina State University, Brazil. His research interests include food
sovereignty, land reform and territorial development.
Antonia Corini is a PhD researcher at the Doctoral School on the
Agro-Food System (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy), where
she focuses on food law. Antonia’s research interests include food safety,
novel foods, official control and food fraud.
John Coveney is a Professor in the College of Nursing and Health
Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. His research interests include
food policy, food history and food culture and health.
Eileen Davenport holds a BA in Sociology (Exeter), and MA and
MPhil degrees in Planning (Nottingham Trent). She is currently an
adjunct faculty member the School of Humanitarian Studies and the
School of Business at Royal Roads University, Canada. Merging these
interests, Eileen will soon embark on research related to how to engage
refugees in the fair trade process.
Marcello De Rosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Economics and Law at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio,
Italy. His research interests include territorial agri-food systems, illegal
practices in agro-food systems, rural entrepreneurship and family farm
businesses.
Jan Deckers is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University in the UK.
His research interests focus on bioethical issues.
Sugandhi del Canto is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, at the
University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Sugandhi’s research interests
include nutrition, place-based health, mixed-methods research,
community-based research, HIV and sexually transmitted infections
(STIs), as well as programme and implementation science.
Jinky Leilanie Del Prado-Lu is a Research Professor at the National
Institutes of Health at the University of the Phillippines, Manila (UPM),
and an Affiliate in the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences,
UPM. Her research interests include promoting wellbeing through
occupational epidemiology and advocacy programmes, especially
among vulnerable populations such as farmers.
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Rachel Engler-Stringer is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine, at the
University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research interests include
community food security, food environments and food access, food
system sustainability, health promotion and community-based and
participatory research.
Amy Fitzgerald is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at the University of
Windsor, Canada. She is also a researcher at the Great Lakes Institute
for Environmental Research. Amy’s research interests are situated at
the culture–nature nexus, focusing on the perpetuation of harms by
humans against the environment and non-human animals. Her areas
of specialisation include green criminology, (critical) animal studies,
environmental sociology and gender studies.
Kora Liegh Glatt is an MA student in Sociology at the University of
Victoria, Australia. She is currently studying the effects of government
regulations on small-scale farmers and the achievement of food
sovereignty. Her other interests include Indigenous reconciliation,
grassroots social movements and social activism.
Allison Gray is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University
of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests intersect
around the subject of food, ranging across a variety of sociological
and criminological perspectives. She is especially keen in studying
issues relating to forms of informal food governance, theoretical
concerns surrounding the impact of contemporary food systems on
human–nature relationships and the connection of food systems and
consumption patterns with green criminology perspectives.
Ronald Hinch is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Social Science
and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology,
Canada. His research interests are eclectic, covering many subjects
across criminology and sociology, including critical criminology, sexual
assault laws, theoretical criminology, policing violence against women,
food crime and the study of serial murder.
Richard Hyde is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the
University of Nottingham, UK. He is interested in consumer law in
general, and food law in particular, and is particularly interested in
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