Redefining the Moral Responsibilities for Food Safety: The Case of Red Meat in New Zealand

Author: Tanaka, Keiko

Source: Rural Sociology, Volume 70, Number 4, December 2005 , pp. 470-490(21)

Publisher: Rural Sociological Society

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Abstract:

Food safety governance is shaped by social relationships among the state, the industry, and the public in the food system in a given country. This paper examines the contestation among actors in New Zealand's red meat chain over the implementation of the Animal Product Act of 1999 (APA), which became a cornerstone in the reform of food safety governance. The discussion focuses on the APA's impact on three types of social relations in the red meat chain, those between: (a) the state and the industry; (b) consumers and citizens; and (c) New Zealand and "offshore." This paper argues that food safety governance is an important element of the moral economy in a given country and poses both policy and ethical challenges in balancing conflicting needs between the global and local agrofood systems.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1526/003601105775012723

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