The Spaces and Ethics of Organic Food

Autor/inn/en	Clarke, Nick; Cloke, Paul; Barnett, Clive; Malpass, Alice
Titel	The Spaces and Ethics of Organic Food
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 24 (2008) 3, S.219-230 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.12.008
Schlagwörter	Sustainable Development; Ethics; Food; Foreign Countries; Physical Environment; Political Issues; Agribusiness; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Ethik; Lebensmittel; Ausland; Natürliche Umwelt; Politischer Faktor; Agrarindustrie; Großbritannien
Abstract	Initial assessments of the potential for organic food systems have offered an optimistic interpretation of the progressive political and ethical characteristics involved. This positive gloss has prompted a stream of critique emphasising the need to explore the ambiguities and disconnections inherent therein. In this paper, we consider the case of Riverford Organic Vegetables, arguably the largest supplier of organic vegetables in the UK, and suggest that existing debates assume too much about the "goods" and "rights" of organic food and leave important questions about the spaces and ethics of organic food. We argue that, in the case of Riverford, the space of organic food production and distribution is neither the small, local, counter-cultural farm nor the large, transnational, corporate firm. Rather, simultaneously, the spaces of organic food production and distribution are the national network, the regional distribution system and the local farm. In addition, in the case of Riverford, the ethics of organic food exhibit few grand designs (of environmental sustainability, for example). Rather, the ethics of organic food are best characterised as: "ordinary," since they relate to concerns about taste, value for money, care within the family and so on; "diverse," since multiple practices steer the production and distribution of organic food; and "graspable," in that both vegetables and box have material and symbolic presence for consumers. (Author).
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