RISK AND TRUST.FOOD-RELATED CONCERNS AND ‘GOOD’ FOOD PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES. FROM RESEARCH INTO EATING PRACTICES IN POLAND
RISK AND TRUST.FOOD-RELATED CONCERNS AND ‘GOOD’ FOOD PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES. FROM RESEARCH INTO EATING PRACTICES IN POLAND

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses how risk and trust – interpreted as social phenomena characteristic of the late modernityera – are reflected in the concerns related to everyday food choices of residents of Poland. It postulates a linkbetween the perception of food-related threats and the meanings associated with different food procurementpractices, and the specifics of a local value system and its historical determinants. Based on the analysis ofresponses from 70 interviewees speaking about food-related concerns, it outlines diverse strategies for verifyingfood choices and the types of trust that are granted to various social actors who take part in the productionand distribution of food. Since the strategies and forms of trust are largely associated with social and culturalassets of consumers, the article also brings into focus their stratifying aspect, as well as levels of overall trustin people, institutions and abstract systems.

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