Crisis and the New Patterns of Food Consumption

Abstract

The economic and social crisis that started in 2007/2008 is not going to be resolved, especially in the European continent, with serious repercussions on employment and on the welfare of a growing part of the population. The difficulties are not only financial, in fact they involve ethics, with a general rethinking of the main model of development and the most popular lifestyles of the Western world. Also the emerging countries, which suffer less from the situation, are wondering about the prospects of the global market and on the dynamics of their rapid growth. We will dwell upon the ethical and social dimensions of the crisis, which represent an element of great importance in contemporary cultural debate.