Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food

By: Coff

Book Overview

Abbreviations List of tables and figures Contributors Editors' Preface Foreword Ethical Traceability and Informed Food Choice Introduction;The Emergence of traceability in the food chain;Traceability in contemporary food chains;Ethics, traceability and food;Consumers' ethical concerns;Informed food choice;The plan of the book;References. PART I Regulation, governance and narrative strategies of food traceability The European Union and the regulation of food traceability: from risk management to informed choice? EU governance and its review;U regulation of traceability;The reform of food safety regulation and food law in the EU: risk management and traceability as control;Food traceability as a relational tool for information, communication and participation;References. Governing and governance in the agri-food sector and traceability From governing to governance;Agri-food governance: the interaction of public and private forms Multi-level governance of food and agriculture;The international governance of agri-food traceability;Conclusion: the governance contexts for realizing ethical traceability;References. Narrative strategies in food advertising Introduction;Four possible narrative strategies of food advertising;Empirical research into narrative strategies used in Italian and Spanishjournals;Narratives and advertising strategies;Implications of advertising strategies for ethical traceability;Conclusion;References. PART II Ethical Traceability in three food supply chains: case studies of Danish bacon, UK wheat-bread and Greek olive oil Ethical traceability in the bacon supply chain Introduction;The Danish pork chain;Danish bacon;Ethical concerns in the pork sector;Traceability and ethical traceability in the chain;Stakeholders' and consumers' response to ethical concerns;Communication in the chain;Discussion of findings;References. Ethical traceability in the UK wheat-flour-bread chain Introduction;Wheat into bread: overview of a mature, complex supply chain;Traceability in the chain, and its ethical dimensions;Perspectives on ethical concerns along the chain;Information and communication along the chain;Some conclusions for ethical traceability;References. Traceability and ethical traceability in the Greek olive oil chain Introduction;The Greek olive oil chain;Traceability and ethical traceability in the olive oil chain;Ethical concerns along the olive oil chain;Conclusions on traceability and on ethical traceability in the olive oil chain;References. PART III Ethical Traceability and its philosophical implications for civil society, market, state and democracy Challenges of

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402085230
• ISBN13: 9781402085239
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"