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Food Systems

Laurie Taylor uncovers the social history of our abundant, but scarcely noticed food packaging, and its role in global food systems. Also, a defence of processed food.

Laurie Taylor talks to Ann Murcott, Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London about the origins and development of food packaging, from tin cans and glass jars to bottles and plastic trays. How central is packaging to global food systems and should we be concerned about wasteful packaging ? Also, Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, offers a spirited defence of processed food from a feminist, economic, and public-health perspective.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Guests and further reading

Anne Murcott, Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of LondonΒ The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Anastacia Marx de Salcedo, public health consultant and food writer
In Defense of Processed Food (Food Controversies) Reaktion BooksΒ 

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