Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire

Surman, Emma; Kelemen, Mihaela; Millward, Helen; Moffat, Sue

Abstract

Eating ethically involves a plethora of activities, being both a contingent and a challenging practice (Williams et al, 2015). The desire to be more ethical in our food choices is connected to anxieties over food consumption, including how and what we should be eating (Ashley et al, 2004), the conditions of production and distribution, highlighted through various food scares from BSE to horse meat in burgers (Jackson, 2010) and the amount of food that gets wasted in the process (Evans, 2014). Such are the range of issues that it becomes hard for consumers to identify a precise focus for the anxiety beyond a general ‘lack of confidence in food’ (Osowski et al, 2012:58) with the result that they feel unsure as to how to respond (Benson,1997).

Citation

Surman, E., Kelemen, M., Millward, H., & Moffat, S. (2018). Food, Ethics and Community: Using Cultural Animation to Develop a Food Vision for North Staffordshire. Journal of Consumer Ethics, 2(2), 17-25

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Deposit Date: Sep 16, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 17, 2019
• Journal: Journal of Consumer Ethics
• Print ISSN: 2515-205X
• Publisher: Ethical Consumer Research Association
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 17-25
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2622107
• Publisher URL: https://journal.ethicalconsumer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/JCE_2_2_Surman_et_al_17_25.pdf