Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning

Healthy food is nutritious, but organic food is healthy because it is pure: The negotiation of healthy food choices by Danish consumers of organic food

“…In an analysis of organic food and moralities of food provisioning among Danish consumers, Andersen (2011) found that justifications for buying organic food mix arguments from different moral conventions. The same kind of complexity is present in the results presented above, where the four identified health perspectives can be seen as conventions with distinct criteria for evaluating the healthiness of a food product.…”

“…Health concerns have been found to be linked to different orders of worth (Stamer, 2018;Andersen, 2011;Truninger, 2011). However, given the ubiquity of health concerns connected with the consumption of organic food as well as general food consumption (Ilmonen, 2011), our study does not assume that healthiness is tied to a specific regime of justification.…”

“…In situations where choices are contested, or debated, people are obliged to justify their everyday choices with reference to underlying norms, in an acceptable manner, so that the justification appears sound and relevant to all involved parties (Boltanski & Thevenot, 1999). The Conventions approach is based on the assumption that people are able to justify their practices, and that in doing so they are able to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate justifications (Andersen, 2011). Boltanski and Thévenot (2000) claim that justifications are grounded in different, yet common, moral conventions about the worth of practices, persons etc., and that these so-called orders of worth pre-date individuals or social groups and are used to make sense of situations in everyday life.…”

Marketing Power Berries: An Importance-Performance Analysis of Blueberry

“…Some consumers were reported to believe organic food has greater nutritional benefits, is safer, and more environmentally friendly than conventionally produced food (Andersen, 2011;Byrne, Bacon, & Toensmeyer, 1994;Hu, Woods, & Bastin, 2009;Schifferstein & Oude Ophuis, 1998). However, researchers have also found consumers did not believe organically-produced food was healthier than conventionally-produced food (Andersen, 2009).…”

Labor migration, externalities and ethics: Theorizing the meso-level determinants of HIV vulnerability

“…The idea of externalities (which is little known outside of academic social science), however, intersects with much more widely-used discourses about ethical consumption, in which individual purchasing choices are framed as “citizenly acts” (Clarke, Barnett, Cloke and Malpass, 2007: 232). Concern for one’s fellow humans is sometimes a prominent part of ethical consumption and sometimes not; a major theme of writing on food ethics is the “plurality of moral claims” (Andersen, 2011: 448) under consideration, with some arguing that in the North American context in particular, “environmental issues tend to overshadow issues related to hunger, social justice, or agricultural labor” (Johnston, Szabo and Rodney, 2011: 295).…”