Consumer views of organic and GM food
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Attitudes towards food, and decisions about eating, are mediated within a complex political and cultural milieu. With food a biological necessity, deci¬sions about what to eat are instead shaped by a complex range of values and beliefs about ourselves, the risks and pleasures associated with eating, and understandings of our relationships with others and the environment. In recent years a plethora of food scares, ranging from salmonella to chem¬ical residues and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), have intensified awareness of the vulnerability of humans to sickness, and in some cases death, from eating the wrong foods. Eating patterns - par¬ticularly the rapid growth in consumption of organic and chemical-free food in the developed world - thus tell us about more than anxieties relat¬ed to personal health and perceived risks associated with industrially produced foods: they also reflect concerns about broader environmental, social and economic implications of food consumption practices.
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Recoding Nature : critical perspectives on genetic engineering
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