ABSTRACT

Recent scholarship has begun to assess, explore and critically engage with so-called ethical foodscapes. A recent paper by Clarke et al. has been particularly crucial in developing an intervention and set of arguments in relation to what they call the spaces and ethics of organic food in the UK. This chapter explores how, in what ways, and for who are the ethics of organic foods ordinary, diverse and graspable. Supermarkets have played a crucial role in the ordinary making of organic foods, in terms of both ethics and spaces, in the UK. In terms of distribution, purchase and consumption, for the majority of consumers who buy their organic foods at supermarkets, the spaces of organic are not only local and/or of the home through online grocery shopping and delivery, but tied very much into the transnational and global spaces of capital and supply chains for organic foods.