Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour and the state

Eating ourselves to death: How food is a drug and what food abuse costs

“…If the purpose of the criminal law is to protect us from harms, government interventions into the conventional food system in the interest of public health are warranted. For example, Meule (2019: np) argues that, “if certain foods have an addictive potential, policy regulations may be implemented to limit advertising, increase the price of, or restrict access to such foods, similar to alcohol and tobacco regulations” (also see Pomeranz and Roberto, 2014).…”

“…As of now, work has focused on issues such as food insecurity and famine (Howard-Hassman, 2016) as well as food fraud (Leon and Ken, 2019). Additional research has focused on issues related to food poisoning, misleading advertisements, exploitation of labor including low pay as well as child & slave labor, control over farmers by large agribusiness, land grabbing, hazardous working conditions, inequality of food availability, food waste, unethical trade policy, illegal trade & pricing in the food industry, various forms of environmental degradation, genetically modified foods (GMOs), faculty farming, and animal cruelty (Beirne, 1999;Boone, 2013;Coe and Coe, 2013;Croall, 2013;Culp, 2005;Del Prado-Lu, 2018;Fairley, 1999;Fatka, 2013;Goodman, 2011;Gray and Hinch, 2015;Hinch, 2018;Lawrence, 2004Lawrence, , 2008Leighton, 2018;Long and Lynch, 2018;Morgan and Goh, 2004;Mugni et al, 2012;Nottingham, 2003;Satre, 2005;Schrage and Ewing, 2005;Smith et al, 2017;Walters, 2006;White, 2012White, , 2014White and Yeates, 2018).…”