| Description |
1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 An Introduction to "Food Crimes" -- Introduction -- What Is "Food Crime"? -- Examples of Food Crimes -- The Important Context of Food Crime -- Harms Caused by Food Crimes -- Crime versus Deviance -- State-Corporate Crime -- Culpability Defined -- The Importance of the Law -- Conclusion: Why Food Crime Matters (and Should Matter to Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Rest of Us) -- 2 The Conventional Food System -- Introduction -- Three Eras of Food -- Sub-eras of Food Production -- The Conventional Food System |
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Industrialization of Food -- Chickenization -- McDonaldization -- Back to Industrialization -- Corporatization of Food -- Monopolization of Food -- Key State Agencies Involved in Food -- USDA -- FDA -- EPA -- CDC -- Other Agencies -- Government-Corporate Relations -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Top Companies of the Conventional Food System -- 3 What Americans Eat -- Introduction -- What Is a Healthy Diet? -- Early Guidance -- Dietary Guidelines -- Food Pyramid -- 1995 Guidelines -- 2000 Guidelines -- 2005 Guidelines -- 2010 Guidelines -- MyPlate -- 2015-2020 Guidelines |
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Is This the Advice of Experts? -- Problems With the Guidelines -- Comparing a Healthy Diet to What Americans Eat -- Physical Activity Matters, Too -- Energy Balance -- Why We Eat What We Eat -- A Focus on School Lunches -- Conclusion -- 4 The Food IS the Crime: Putting the Food Back Into "Food Crime" -- Introduction -- Processed Foods -- Salt -- Sugar -- Fat -- Additives -- Antimicrobials -- GMOs -- Conclusion -- 5 Food Addiction -- Introduction -- Drug Use versus Drug Misuse and Drug Abuse -- Why Do People Use Drugs? -- How the Brain Is Involved -- What Is Addiction? |
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Addiction versus Substance Use Disorder -- Is Food Addictive? -- Food and the Elements of Addiction -- Changes in the Brain -- Cravings -- Tolerance -- Withdrawal -- Compulsive Use Despite Harms, Lack of Impulse Control -- Social Problems -- Which Foods May Be Addictive? -- Prevalence of Food Addiction -- Conclusion: What Does It All Mean? -- 6 Harms Associated With What We Eat -- Introduction -- SAD -- Illness -- Obesity -- Diabetes -- Mental Health and Other Conditions -- Death Associated With Diet -- Health-Care Costs -- A Healthier Diet -- Obesity, Diabetes, and Choice -- Conclusion |
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7 Harms Associated With the System -- Introduction -- Killing and Eating Animals -- Animal Welfare -- Factory Farming/CAFOs -- Change Is Coming? -- Pathogens -- Hazardous Working Conditions -- Environmental Damage -- Food Insecurity -- Food Waste -- Focus on Fishing -- Conclusion -- 8 Culpability for Food Crimes -- Introduction -- Food Companies Are Culpable for Producing Excess Calories -- Food Companies Are Culpable for Putting Food in Non-food Environments -- Food Companies Are Culpable for Funding Research to Create One-Sided Studies |
| Summary |
This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Food Companies Are Culpable for Using Front Groups to Confuse Consumers |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Crime.
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Crime
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Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000927245 |
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1000927245 |
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