ABSTRACT
For the human body, besides sex, there are few things more essentially transgressive and boundary-crossing than food. As Elspeth Probyn has it in her opening to Carnal Appetites, in the act of ingestion, strict divisions get blurred. Food marketing and the construction of taste is now a thoroughly transgressive tool of ethical trade, development, political ecologies and livelihood formation designed to shrink the spatial, economic and socio-cultural distances between producers and consumers. The first concerns the significance of foregrounding the intentions and intentionalities of many current food transgressions. Looming large here are the ethical dimensions where transgressions catalogued in this book speak to the desire to do good or do better in the provisioning of food. An ethics of care, as presented in Berlan and Dolan's chapter, similarly informs the arguments of the chapter by Cox, Kneafsey, Holloway, Dowler and Venn.
