Abstract
In this paper, the authors introduce the topic of type 2 diabetes, offering definitions as well as discussing its major symptoms and causes. We also analyze trends in diagnoses over time, and most significantly, examine how the conventional food system plays a role in the etiology of the medical condition. The topic is of interest to criminology and criminal justice, we argue, because of moral and potential legal culpability in the food industry. When placed in the context of state-corporate crime, outcomes of the conventional food system begin to look a lot like crimes. That is, global corporations produce, process, market, and sell the foods that are killing more humans than nearly anything else on the planet, including drugs and crime. State agencies created and organized to protect consumers not only fail to stop this, but also enable and encourage the production and consumption of unhealthy foods.
Highlights
In this paper, the authors introduce the topic of type 2 diabetes, offering definitions as well as discussing its major symptoms and causes
The bottom line is that, we decide what we put into our mouths, we don’t determine what foods are produced, how they’re advertised, how much they cost, and whether we have access to them
Consumers decide what to put into their mouths, they do not determine what foods are produced, how they are advertised, how much they cost, and whether we have access to them
Summary
The US conventional food system is composed of a “food supply chain” (Kinsey 2001; Oskam, Backus, Kinsey and Frewer 2010; Senauer and Venturini 2005) This food supply chain comprises every actor and institution involved in growing (e.g., grains, vegetables, fruits), catching (e.g., fish, other seafood), and raising (e.g., cows, other livestock) our food, as well as those who provide the necessary capital and machinery to do so. It includes all the people and organizations who turn the raw ingredients into edible food and get it to places where it can be purchased as food (Nesheim, Oria, and Yih 2015).
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