In Western societies, with increasingly salient mediation processes, eating, too, has become
an entanglement of offline and online practices. Food as carrier of values has never merely …

The shift of society toward sustainable food culture requires collectively challenging meat
and dairy-based diets and their role in current practices of eating. This study focuses on how …

ABSTRACT A significant amount of food produced ends up as waste. It has been estimated
that up to a half of all food purchased by households is thrown away (Imeche. org 2013) …

This chapter addresses social and cultural aspects of eating and drinking in Denmark,
Finland, Norway, and Sweden and how this has changed in the period between 1997 and …

Chapter 7 several different media genres such as public information, entertainment, practical
resources, aesthetic display, commercial marketing, and normative argumentation, and …

Food is a profoundly political issue, with themes such as environmental sustainability and
ethics becoming increasingly important. These concerns have given rise to a new kind of …

Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary,
industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the …

Recently, the role of civil society in shaping food systems has been increasingly recognised,
as has the role of active 'food citizens' who take political and practical responsibility for …

Many sociological accounts of life in the 21st century include reflections on the dissolution of
distinctions between the public and private sphere, aided by social media and information …

The gap between the awareness and understanding of healthful eating on the one hand and
actual eating practices on the other has been addressed in several ways in the literature. In …