Anxious Appetites
Subtitle: Food and Consumer Culture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781472588135
Subjects: Food habits; Food contamination; Consumers; Anxiety
Description: Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. This book explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how they act as a channel for broader social issues.