num_pages: 224
description: Anyone alive and wanting to stay that way must deal with food. Crime is and always has been present. Food and Crime examines the crossroads of these two universal forces how hunger can lead to theft fraud and murder and how the well-fed will sometimes do anything to keep their bellies full. From the one-timers to the career caper-planners food criminals are a wide-ranging often audacious bunch and this is the record of their impact great and small.From a war fought by the Mayor of New York over tasty thistles to the role McDonald's plays in the American culinary conscious to how foreign food aid abuse led to a mighty fall in the financial sector these sixteen stories of criminals who engage with the world of cuisine cookery or agriculture cover food and crime from the piddliest pilfering to the most diabolical murders. Covering the period from the Ancient Greeks (who invented insurance fraud) to the effects of COVID-19 on seafood crime in the true crime capital of America - Florida here's clear evidence that there's never been a time when food and crime were not intimately entangled. Food and Crime sheds light on the unexpected and sometimes unbelievable connections between two things that we can never seem to get enough of.
language: English
title: Food and Crime: Theft, Poisoning and Murder for Food
publisher: Pen and Sword True Crime