The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business, consumerism, marketing, and environmentalism.

Table of Contents

• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Volume 1
• A
• Advertising and Marketing of Food
• Advertising and Marketing of Food to Children
• Aflatoxins
• Agrarianism
• Agricultural Acts
• Agritourism
• Airline Meals
• Alar
• Alcohol
• Alcohol Industry, Regulation and Taxation of
• Alcohol Regulations, History of
• Animal Rights
• Anthropophagy
• Antibacterial Soaps, Detergents, and Dishwashing Liquids
• Antibiotics and Superbugs
• Anti-Globalization Movements/World Trade Organization
• Antioxidants
• Antitrust Laws
• Apps for Food
• Aquaculture/Fish Farming
• Aquaponics
• Art Depicting Food
• Art Using Food as a Medium
• Artificial Sweeteners
• Artisanal Foods
• Artisanal Spirits
• Atkins Diet
• Authenticity of Cuisines
• Ayurveda and Diet
• B
• Baby Food
• Bakeries
• Bankruptcy Laws
• Bans on Food, Cultural and Health-Related
• Bar Food
• Barter and the Informal Economy
• Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder
• Beverage Industry
• Bible-Based Diets
• Biodynamic Food
• Biofuels
• Biopiracy
• Bioterrorism
• Blogging
• Botulism
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Boycotts
• Branding
• Bread Processing
• Breastfeeding
• Buffets/All You Can Eat
• Butterflies and Other Lepidoptera, Decline in Population of
• C
• Cafeterias, Noninstitutional
• Cancer-Fighting Foods
• Cannabis in Food
• Canned Goods
• Canning
• Carcinogens and the Relation of Cancer to Diet
• Cardiac Disease and Diet
• Casual Dining Chains
• Catering Business, Off-Site
• Cattle Industry
• Celebrity Chefs
• Charitable Organizations
• Chemical Fertilizers
• Childhood Obesity
• Children's Foods
• Chinese Traditional Medicine and Diet
• Chocolate
• Cholesterol, LDL and HDL
• Christian Food Restrictions
• Church Suppers
• Circular Food Systems
• Class Actions
• Climate Change
• Codex Alimentarius
• Codex Alimentarius Commission
• Coffeehouses and Coffee Shops
• College Dining Services
• Commodity Chains
• Community Gardens
• Community Supported Agriculture (CSAS), Consumers’ Perspective
• Community Supported Agriculture (CSAS), Farmers’ Perspective
• Competitive Eating
• Composting
• Confined Animal Feeding Operations
• Consistency of Food Products/Ingredients
• Consumer Trust
• Contract Laws
• Convenience Foods
• Convenience Stores
• Cookbooks and the Publishing Industry
• Cooking as Leisure Activity
• Cooking Competitions
• Cooking Temperatures, Minimum
• Cooking Temperatures, U.S. Department of Agriculture Guidelines for
• Cooperatives
• Corporate Food Service
• Coupons
• Crop Insurance
• Crowdsourced Reviews of Restaurants
• Culinary Diplomacy
• Cultural Identity and Food
• D
• Dairy Industry
• Dead Zones in Fisheries
• Deforestation for Agriculture
• Deli Counter in Grocery Stores
• Design and Decor of Restaurants
• Deskilling
• Diabetes
• Dietary Guidelines and Graphics
• Dietary Supplements
• Diners
• Disgust
• Distribution Centers
• DIY Food Movement
• Domestic Food Insecurity
• Donut Shops
• E
• E. coli
• Economic Cost of the Western Diet
• Education in Food Service Industries
• Elderly Nutrition
• Employment: U.S. Food Sector
• Endangered Species
• Equal Opportunity Employment/Discrimination
• Ethnic Foods, Marketing of
• Ethnic Grocery Stores
• Ethnic Restaurants
• Exotic Food and Strange Food
• Expiration Dates
• Exports
• F
• Factory Farming
• Fair and Carnival Food
• Fair Trade
• Family Farms and Rural Depopulation
• Family Meals/Commensality
• Famines
• Farm Bills
• Farmers’ Markets
• Farmers’ Markets, Cooking With Seasonal Produce
• Farmers’ Markets, Farmers’ Perspective
• Farmworkers
• Volume 2
• F
• Fast Food
• Fats, Role in Cardiovascular Disease
• Fats, Role in Diet
• Federal Trade Commission
• Fiber, Role in Diet
• Fine Dining
• Fish Contaminants
• Fisheries Certification Programs
• Fishing for Sport
• Fishing Industry
• Fishing Policies
• Food Additives
• Food Advertisements in School Hallways and Cafeterias
• Food Aid
• Food Allergies
• Food Allergies: Impact on Life
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Food Banks
• Food Carts
• Food Deserts
• Food Fairs and Festivals
• Food in Popular Media
• Food Insecurity
• Food Justice
• Food Lobbying
• Food Magazines
• Food Miles
• Food Policy Councils
• Food Pyramid
• Food Riots
• Food Safety
• Food Safety Agencies
• Food Science Departments/Programs in Universities
• Food Sovereignty
• Food Sovereignty, Policy and Regulation
• Food Stamps and Wic
• Food Trends Leading to Diminished Species
• Food Trucks
• Food TV
• Food Waste
• Food Writing in Books
• Foodborne Illness
• Foraging
• Forestry Management
• Fracking, Impact on Food and Water
• Fraud
• Freegans and Dumpster Diving
• Free-Range Meats and Poultry
• French Paradox
• Fresh Food
• Front Groups
• Frozen Food
• Fruitarianism
• Functional Foods
• G
• Gastropubs
• Gender and Foodways
• Generic Brands
• Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
• Ghostwriters for Celebrity Chefs
• Global Food Security Act of 2009
• Global Warming and Future Food Supply
• Gluten-Free Foods
• Gourmet and Specialty Foods
• Grain Elevators/Hoarding and Speculation
• Grass-Fed Beef
• Green Revolution, Future Prospects for
• Green Revolution Farming: Unanticipated Consequences
• Grocery Stores and Supermarkets
• Growth Hormones and Other Drugs in Meat Products
• Guerrilla Gardening
• H
• Halal Food
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)
• Health Food Stores
• Herbicide Resistance
• Heritage Breeds
• High-Fructose Corn Syrup
• Hindu Food Restrictions
• Holidays Centered on Food
• Holistic Medicine (New Age) and Diet
• Home Fermentation
• Homesteading
• Hospital Food
• Human Right to Adequate Food
• Hunger
• Hunting
• Hypermarkets
• I
• Ice Cream Parlors
• Identity and Food
• Imported Food
• In Vitro Meat
• Industry Labor and Labor Unions
• Intellectual Property Law and Recipes
• Intellectual Property Rights
• International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development Study
• International Food Security
• Invasive Species
• Investigative Journalism
• Irradiation
• J
• Junk Food, Consumption
• Junk Food, Impact on Health
• K
• Kosher Food
• Kyoto Protocol
• L
• Labeling: Organic, Local, and Genetically Modified
• Labeling, Legislation and Oversight
• Labeling, Nutrition
• Labeling and Branding, Fruits and Vegetables
• Lactobacilli
• Land Grant Colleges/Extension Units
• Landrace
• Last Meals
• Liquor Stores
• Listeria
• Litigation Concerning Food Issues
• Locavorism
• Locust Infestations
• Low-Carbohydrate Diets
• Low-Fat Foods
• Low-Sodium Foods
• M
• Macrobiotics
• Mad Cow Disease
• Magazine and Newspaper Advertising
• Manure Lagoons/Methane
• Marketing Boards
• Meat Processing
• Media Portrayals of Food Issues
• Microloans
• Migrant Labor
• Military Rations
• Milling
• Minerals, in Nutrition
• Mini-Marts
• Mixology
• Mobile Markets
• Molecular Gastronomy
• Monoculture
• Monopolies
• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
• Mormon Food Practices
• Muckraking
• Multifunctionality in Agriculture
• Multinational Conglomerates
• Music About Food
• Volume 3
• N
• Natural and Artificial Flavors and Fragrances
• Naturally Raised and Fed Meats
• Newspaper Food Columns
• Nitrate, Nitrite, and Cured Versus Uncured Meats
• Noise in Restaurants
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Nutraceuticals
• Nutrient Density
• Nutrition Education
• Nutritionism
• O
• Obesity Epidemic
• Olive Oil
• Online Advertising
• Online Shopping
• Open Kitchens
• Organic Agricultural Products, Policies on
• Organic Foods and Health Implications
• Organic Production
• Organic/Biodynamic Farming
• Overfishing and Fisheries Depletion
• Oxalic Acid and Oxalates
• Oyster Bars
• P
• Packaged Food and Preservatives
• Packaging
• Paleo Diet
• Paleodietary Reconstruction, Modern Techniques in
• Pancake Houses and Breakfast Joints
• Pay-What-You-Can Cafés
• Pellagra
• Performance Art Using Food
• Permaculture
• Pest Control
• Pesticides
• Pet Food
• Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
• Pizzerias
• Plu
• Population and Food Supply
• Portion Sizes
• Poultry Industry
• Preservatives
• Price Fixing
• Price Look-Up Codes
• Price Wars
• Prison Food
• Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
• R
• Raw Diets
• Raw Milk and Pasteurization
• Recalls
• Recipe Testing
• Refrigerator Design and Size
• Religion and Food Practices
• Religion and Foods, Requirements and Labeling
• Restaurant Chefs
• Restaurant Cooking Technologies
• Restaurant Inspections
• Restaurant Management
• Restaurant Menu Design
• Restaurant Reviews
• Restaurant Reviews, Online
• Restaurant Waitstaff
• Restaurants, Design and Decor
• Rickets
• Roadside Stands
• S
• Salmonella
• School Food
• School Lunches
• School Wellness Programs
• Scurvy
• Seed Banks
• Seed Conservation
• Seed Exchange Networks
• Seed Sterility Technology
• Self-Checkout in Grocery Stores
• Sell-By Dates
• Seventh-Day Adventist Food Practices
• Shelf Life
• Shelving and Product Placement
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Slow Food
• Smoking Regulations in Restaurants
• Smuggling
• Snack Foods
• Social Media and Food
• Soil Degradation and Conservation
• Solar Cookers
• Soup Kitchens
• South Beach Diet
• Soy and Phytoestrogens
• Special Programme for Food Security, United Nations
• Sports Nutrition
• Sprouts
• Standards and Measures
• Steroid Hormones in Food
• Storage and Warehousing
• Street Food
• Strikes
• Subliminal Advertising
• Subsidies
• Supper Clubs and Clandestine Dining
• Supply and Distribution Networks
• Sushi
• Sustainable Agrifood Systems
• Sustainable Agrifood Systems, Effect on Environment
• T
• Tagging and Tracking Foods From Origin to Point of Retail Sale
• Take-Out Foods
• Tariffs
• Taxation, Fat Tax
• Taxation, General
• Television Advertising
• Terminator Technology
• Terroir
• Terrorist Threats to Food and Water Supplies
• Threats to Clean Drinking Water
• Tourism, Food
• Toxicity Testing
• Traceability
• Trademarks
• Trans Fat and Hydrogenation
• Trophy Kitchens
• U
• Umami
• Underground Economies
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and World Cuisines
• United Nations, Food Standards
• Urban Farming and Rooftop Gardens
• Urbanization of Agricultural Land
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Use-By Dates
• V
• Values-Based Food Supply Chains
• Veganism
• Vegetable Oils
• Vegetarianism
• Vegetarianism and Veganism, Health Implications
• Vending Machines
• Vertical Integration
• Veterinary Science
• Vitamins and Other Dietary Supplements
• W
• Warehouse Clubs and Supermarket Loyalty Cards
• Water, Bottled Versus Municipal
• Water in Global Agrifood Chains
• Water Rights
• Websites on Food
• Weight Loss Diets
• Wet Markets and Hawking
• Whaling for Food
• Wine
• Worker Safety
• World Health Organization, Food Standards
• World Trade Organization
• World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)
• X
• Xerophthalmia
• Appendix: Resource Guide