ABSTRACT
When considering food, the label ‘crime’ is generally reserved for actions such as fraud, theft, falsification, and violations of food safety that take place in the public sphere. Food practices in the private sphere that depend on harms to others routinely evade the label ‘crime’ and, indeed, often are so commonplace and accepted that the harms are occluded as well. What we eat has obvious implications for nonhuman animals because it is often grounded in the suffering and deaths of billions of them. The ‘doing of the consumer’ involves us in these harms. This chapter asks, ‘How have criminologists approached these harms?’. By engaging critically and zemiologically with notions such as ‘crime’, ‘harm’, ‘space’, ‘domestic’ and ‘domesticated’, this chapter offers the rejoinder ‘How can criminologists engage with these harms’.
