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Introduction: Adolescent obesity is rising in the United Kingdom (UK), and it is more prevalent in older adolescents aged 15-19 years than in almost any other higher income nation. Obese children and adolescents are at a high risk of developing several chronic diseases (NHS Digital, 2021; Nuffield trust, 2021). Providing nutritional information (NI) in the form of a food label (FL) is one strategy that has the potential to reduce obesity. A FL allows consumers to compare the NI between similar food products which can theoretically guide consumers as to which are the healthier food choices. Since December 2016 all prepacked food in the UK was required to display mandatory NI on the back of a FL, presented per 100g/ml or per portion of the product. The NI includes energy in kJ, and kcal and the number of grams of fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, protein, and salt. NI on the front of prepacked FL is voluntary and is predominantly assessed through a nutrient profiling model (NPM) which can be a nutrient specific or a summary system. The process of NP includes several stages dependent upon its purpose. To date, there are a plethora of different front of pack FL designs yet no consensus as to which design has the greatest influence on food choice behaviour (FCB). School food can theoretically provide a third of an adolescent daily calorie intake, yet schools in England have no policies to inform pupils as to which food options are the healthiest. The UK government has announced that from April 2022 it will enforce all businesses with 250 or more employees in England including cafes, restaurants and take away food to display calorific information on non-prepacked food and soft drinks (GOV.UK, 2021) but this does not include school food. There are three known published studies (Hunsberger et al., 2015; Rainville et al., 2010; Conklin and Cranage, 2005), and one unpublished study (Fresques', 2013) that have provided NI in the form of calories and fat in a live school setting in America. Results did not concur as to the ...

"This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights. Taken separately, these are three well-known subjects; but it is uncommon to consider them together. Delivering a rich field of disputes, the book is comprised of 50 case studies, organized around eight themes: images; genericity and descriptiveness; language traps; procedures; menus, recipes, and creativity; boundaries; biotech; and empowerment. The introductory chapter frames the selection of cases and encourages readers to look beyond them, envisaging new lenses to look at food vis-à-vis intellectual property. The terrain encompassed is wide-ranging and reaches out to fine-grained aspects of food products, recipes, and cooking. Conceived for a wide scope of readers, the volume ultimately interrogates the links between food and cultural identity, bringing to the fore the ethical, political, aesthetic worth of culinary arts and gastronomic experiences. This accessible book will be of value to scholars, students, practitioners and others with interests in the areas of intellectual property, food law and food studies"--

Media interest in food has intensified in recent years, leading to a contemporary food landscape where 'alternative' food practices are increasingly visible. Concerns that were once exclusively the domain of activist movements motivated by environmental, animal rights, health and anti-corporate agendas are now central to primetime television cooking shows, mobile apps and social media.This book is the first to explore the impact of popular media and culture on contemporary food politics. Through examination of a range of media and cultural texts, including news, digital media, advertising and food labelling, it brings together leading and emerging scholars in food studies, media and communications, sociology, law, policy studies, business, and geography. The book explores the practices of alternative food movements, the marketing techniques of conventional and alternative food producers, and the relationships between food industries, media, and the public. Covering topics ranging from agtech start-ups and social justice projects, to new ways of mediating food waste, celebrity, and 'ethical' foods, Alternative Food Politics reveals the importance of media as a driver of food system transformation. This is a pivotal time for media and food industries, and this book is essential reading for scholars and students seeking to better understand the futures, possibilities and limits of food politics today.

Good fare and welfare : perceptions of American and French food in postwar cookbooks / Caroline Nyvang -- Transcultural food and recipes for immigration / Susanna Moodie and Cathrine Parr Traill -- Just a happy housewife? : Michelle Obama, food activism and (African-)American womanhood / Katrine Meldgaard Kjær -- "The worst mum in Britain" : class, gender and caring in the campaigning culinary documentary / Joanne Hollows -- Manning the table : masculinity and weight loss in U.S. commercials / Fabio Parasecoli -- Homosocial heterotopias and masculine escapism in TV-cooking shows / Jonathan Leer -- "I (never) just google" : media and food practices / Karen Klitgaard Povlsen -- Everyday mothering and the media food "soup" : comparing contested food and mothering across genres in two different social contexts / Bente Halkier -- Food across media : popular food contents among children in Germany / Susanne Eichner -- Children cooking media food : exploring media (food) literacy through experimental methods / Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager -- Epilogue : politics and the future of food and media / Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato

Introduction : Careful Eating : Reflecting on the Embodied Intersections of Eating and Caring / Anna Lavis, Emma-Jayne Abbots and Luci Attala -- Multiculturalism as Work : The Emotional Labour of Ethnic Food Tour Guides / Rick Flowers and Elaine Swan -- Is Sharing Caring? : Social Media and Discourses of Healthful Eating / Signe Rousseau -- Caring about Careless Eating : Class Politics, Governance and the Production of Otherness in Highland Ecuador / Emma-Jayne Abbots -- Careful Starving : Reflections on (Not) Eating, Caring and Anorexia / Anna Lavis -- The Sweetness of Care : Biographies, Bodies and Place / Tanya Zivkovic, Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore, Paul Ward and Michelle Jones -- Food, Weight and Care in the Consultation / Antje Lindenmeyer -- Placing Security : Food, Geographical Knowledge(s) and the Reproduction of Place(less-ness) / Ben Coles -- Configuring Relations of Care in an Online Consumer Protection Organization / Karin Eli, Amy K. McLennan and Tanja Schneider -- Children's Engagements with Food : An Embodied Politics of Care through School Meals / Mónica Truninger and José Teixeira -- Afterword : The Everyday Biopolitics of Care-full Eating / Michael K. Goodman

"Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues 'from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the economies, culture and politics of food. This is the first text to provide a much-needed overview of this strongly debated area of the food industry. Buller and Roe explore how animal welfare is defined, advocated, assessed and implemented by farmers, veterinarians, distributors, and consumers. From the practicalities and limitations of establishing a basic standard of care for livestock, to the ethics of selling welfare as a product in the supermarket, this indispensable book offers empirical insights into a key aspect of the global food system: the lives, deaths, and consumption of animals which are at the core of the food chain. It is a must-read for students and scholars of animal welfare, agro-food studies and human-animal relations in disciplines such as geography, politics, anthropology, and sociology as well as animal behaviour, psychology and veterinary science."--Bloomsbury Publishing

The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of "the scarcity slot," a kind of othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past, with major implications for the future. "This book offers a pathbreaking archaeological ethnography of food in a region of West Africa that has experienced some of the most cataclysmic sociopolitical upheavals the world has ever seen. Amanda Logan dismantles the dominant narrative that Columbian Exchange crop introductions rescued a continent long shaped by hunger. This brilliant study elevates archaeology's contributions to African food history and food insecurity studies." JUDITH CARNEY, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World "The Scarcity Slot is an accessible, empirically grounded history demonstrating for students of Africa's futures the urgent need to understand her pasts." KATHRYN M. DE LUNA, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University "A radical shift from the old ways of doing the archaeology of diet, this book breaks ground for a new food archaeology. A truly innovative and exciting work and a convincing antidote to the popular image of Africa as a continent of famine." RICHARD WILK, Distinguished Professor and Provost's Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Food insecurity in context -- Justice and survival -- Food sovereignty and survival -- Causes and consequences of food insecurity -- Climate change -- Increased poverty -- Structural adjustment and austerity -- Responses to food insecurity -- Policies to increase food security -- Popular resistance and adaptation -- Food insecurity and national identity -- The power of memory -- References -- 2 Causes and consequences of njaa (hunger) in the household: Food security and intimate partner violence within an ... -- Introduction -- Field site and methods -- Violence within Bangla's households -- Sources of intra-household conflict and abuse -- Pesa (money) -- Responses to food insecurity -- Conflict, abuse, and food insecurity -- Refusing to cook -- Refusing to eat -- Refusing to give money -- Running away -- Secret savings -- Infidelity -- Cycles of conflict, abuse, and food insecurity, and the impact of women-centered intervention -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Food is a gift of the earth: Food sovereignty among migrant farmworkers in rural Vermont -- Introduction: conducting food-security research in Vermont -- Encerrado: migrant farmworker (in)visibility in Vermont's landscape -- Reconsidering and reconciling food (in)security -- Food access strategies in the northern borderlands -- Sending grocery lists -- Mobile tiendas (stores) -- Government programs -- Huertas gardening project -- Tomás's garden -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Food insecurity and the struggle for food sovereignty in the time of structural adjustment: The case of Greece -- Introduction -- Food insecurity in the Greek crisis -- Rebuilding the production and distribution of food in crisis-ridden Greece and food sovereignty.