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Food and Health Policy: In an Age of Austerity and Globalization

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Actions; Goals; Legislation related to food and health

Introduction to Food and Health Policy

What is food policy? Miller and Deutsch (2009) discuss what constitutes food studies; they say that food studies are not really the study of food itself but the study of the relationship between food, the human experience, and food (Brillat-Savarin 1976; also see Brillat-Savarin and Food). Miller and Deutsch (2009) outline areas of study such as food science, agricultural science, culinary arts, public health nutrition, and agro-economics, to name but a few areas which they see as incorporating food studies. Food policy incorporates all of the areas but is more than even the study of the relationship between food and the human experience. Food policy is more than health and more than just agricultural policies or even nutrition policy as individual strands; it is the interconnectedness and sometimes even the disconnect between these various areas (see also “Agricultural and Food...

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  1. School Arts and Social Sciences, Centre for Food Policy, City University London, Room: D110, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Martin Caraher (Professor of Food and Health Policy)

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  1. Michigan State University Dept. Philosophy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Paul B. Thompson

  2. University of North Texas Dept. Philosophy & Religion Studies, Denton, Texas, USA

    David M. Kaplan

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Caraher, M. (2014). Food and Health Policy: In an Age of Austerity and Globalization. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_213-8

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