Mass-produced food: the rise and fall of the promise of health and safety

摘要: The greater awareness of the negative environmental and health-related externalities large-scale food industry is directly responsible for diminished confidence quality its products. Using multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions (Geels, 2004; 2010), I argue that initial impetus emergence mass production was presence threats to health safety in broader societal context. Rather than simply serving economic considerations, scale scientific expertise functioned as a credible signal due relationship these threats. declining represents, however, consequence changing new safety. Scale credibility no longer sufficient guarantee qualities, however. Absent incentives undertake costly investments production, criteria productivity efficiency become duly emphasized detriment Hence, continued emphasis now represents limitation improving Instead, further innovation demands development appropriate extant social