Cooking up consumer anxieties about "provenance" and "ethics": Why it sometimes matters where foods come from in domestic provisioning

Food, Culture and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 495-512

  Meah, Angela ^a   Watson, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care; Consumer ethics; Practices; Provenance; Provisioning; Shopping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882996106     PISSN: 15528014     EISSN: 17517443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174413X13673466712001     Document Type: Article

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