Tagged: food industry

Sociology of Culture

Crisp Culture: a national obsession.

  In the UK, this week marks the end of British Summer Time. The clocks go back an hour, its dark by teatime, and the sky turns a uniquely depressingly shade of gunboat grey until March. Yes, The Long Dark Winter Of The Soul starts here. For millions of Britons, keeping Seasonal Affective Disorder at bay will mean spending many hours in that great British sanctuary: THE PUB. There will be beer, there will be football, there will be whingeing...

Sociology of Culture

The Unhappy Laborer and Your Happy Consciousness

nmccoy1 In a New York Times article (see below), consumers of organic food have become distressed to learn that organic food may not actually be safer than other food products.  While it is clear that consumers who shop organic are right to expect higher standards, we may need to question what standards they are invoking.  In an age of information, consumers are more capable than ever before of researching food product ingredients, nutrition, pesticide use, and labor rights.  Yet labor...