Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the
supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes …

Societal awareness of healthy eating is increasing alongside the market for processed
bagged salads, which remain as one of the strongest growing food sectors internationally …

In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a
substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins …

The safety of fresh produce is an important concern in the United States, especially in the
wake of recent national foodborne illness outbreaks. The agricultural industry has …

Several emerging technologies for agri-food systems are promoted by supporters as
alleviating the instabilities of COVID-19 and thus increasingly necessary and inevitable …

This article offers a socioecological analysis of the plight of the honeybee. Departing from
natural sciences explanations of the chronic health issues observed in managed honeybees …

This paper explores differences in national responses to foodborne disease outbreaks,
addressing both the sources of policy divergence and their implications for public health and …

This article examines how nonhuman animals, along with land and labor, represent fictitious
commodities as described by Karl Polanyi. Animals in agriculture are examined as an …

This paper engages with the question: how can the marketization of ecologically embedded
edibles be enabled in alternative food networks? The challenge lies in the fact that …

On-farm food safety is treated as the final frontier in addressing source contamination
problems of foodborne pathogens in fresh fruits and vegetables. It is a common assumption …