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Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, this politically nuanced volume offers insight into the origins of alternative food movements and their place in today's global economy. Collectively, the essays cover discourses on food and morality; the material and social practices surrounding production, trade, and consumption; and the political and economic power of social movements in Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Lithuania, Russia, and Vietnam. Scholars and students will gain important historical and anthropological perspective on how the dynamics of state-market-citizen relations continue to shape the ethical and moral frameworks guiding food practices around the world.

Food consumption --- Food --- Consumption of food --- Cost and standard of living --- Food supply --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Social aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Primitive societies --- alternative food movements. --- anthropology. --- bulgaria. --- capitalism. --- china. --- consumption of food. --- critical food studies. --- cuba. --- eating. --- ethical. --- ethics. --- fair trade food. --- food and hunger. --- food and morality. --- food around the world. --- food practices. --- food. --- geography. --- global economy. --- history. --- lithuania. --- local food. --- organic food. --- political movements. --- political. --- politics of food. --- post socialist. --- production of food. --- russia. --- social movements. --- socialism. --- socialist. --- sociology. --- state market citizen relations. --- trade of food. --- vietnam.