Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity? / Edition 1

by Gordon W. Fuller

Overview

During the past, there have been many changes in food availability, production and selection around the world. These changes, such as genetically modified foods, raise questions about their long-range implications. How will they affect the worldwide economics and management of agriculture? food legislation? the environment? the determination of food safety and quality? nutrition and health? Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity? describes the major changes and answers the questions concerning them. It presents information that decision-makers in the field can utilize on such topics as:

Consumers and consumerism

Marketing and the marketplace

Retailing

Nutrition and health

Impact of new technologies


Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry encourages you to set aside the "truth" of science to consider how political, economic, social, and cultural institutions can work to avoid a possible crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849323263
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2001
Series:	Contemporary Food Science Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gordon W. Fuller

Table of Contents

An Overview of the Present Status. Consumers and Consumerism. Marketing and the Marketplace.
Retailing the Arena for Marketing. Nutrition and Health. Food Legislation and Food Safety. The Impact of New Technologies. The Face of Food Industry. Summary and Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

After a lengthy career teaching and working in the food industry, Fuller (he's a fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology in the UK and in Canada) now looks over the changes in the industry and discovers much to criticize. Writing for the general reader (and one wishes for more specific examples to support his pessimistic views) the themes he considers include: lack of honesty toward the consumer, the technology of marketing, the impact of the Internet on marketing, concerns over genetic modification, environmental impact of factory farming, the need for better regulation, and concerns over the ability of science to render food safe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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