Bradshaw, C orcid.org/0000-0002-3917-9250 (2020) England's fresh approach to food waste: problem frames in the Resources and Waste Strategy. Legal Studies, 40 (2). pp. 321-343. ISSN 0261-3875
Abstract
Coexisting and eye-watering levels of food abundance, waste, overconsumption and hunger are symptomatic of a broken food system punctuated by vested interests in systematic overproduction. Against that backdrop, this paper evaluates England's ‘new’ approach to food waste in light of concerns that policy-makers have framed food waste as a consumer behaviour problem, rather than a structural challenge. The Resources and Waste Strategy's acknowledgement of normalised overproduction is thus remarkable, but unexpected. However, frame critical analysis reveals how an apparent departure from preoccupations with economic growth, combined with promises of government action, obscure an ongoing reluctance to intervene against powerful interests and the causes (not symptoms) of food waste. Legislative proposals, rather than reducing surplus, shift the burden of redistributing food away from the state and retailers, on to charities and farmers. With England, perhaps wrongly, seen as a world-leader on food waste, this has implications for other jurisdictions, as well as forthcoming consultations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Society of Legal Scholars 2020. This article has been published in a revised form in Legal Studies. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | food waste; framing; environmental law and policy; unfair trading practices; Agriculture Bill; Groceries Code Adjudicator |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2019 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2020 11:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/lst.2019.37 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154313 |