Safe at any scale? Food scares, food regulation, and scaled alternatives

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Edible backyards: a qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security (2011, background): “In this context, food security is threatened by food supply systems that are not environmentally sustainable (for example see Xuereb 2005; Forkes 2007; Bunce and Maurer 2005; Morison et al. 2008), and by a lack of local understanding and control (at both the individual and community level) of the fo”
Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars? (2011, background): “When the term ‘‘local’’ is tied in this manner to conventionalizing, scale-inducing, structural inequity (see DeLind and Howard 2008; Gilman 2009), it loses its proclaimed economic advantage—that $45 of every $100 spent locally stays in the community (Mitchell 2009).”
Resilience and the industrial food system: analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability (2015, methodology): “This example is supported by research examining the relationship between the scale of food outbreaks in the USA, such as salmonella in eggs and E. coli in spinach, and high production and distribution connectivity in the industrial food system (DeLind and Howard 2008).”