ABSTRACT
Central to criticisms of contemporary dietary patterns, and almost irrespective of the focus of analysis – whether nutritional, environmental, ethical or cultural – is the ‘problem’ of convenience and fast foods. If we are to believe much of what we read, convenience foods stand out as being nutritionally inferior, as having production methods that are environmentally damaging and ethically indefensible, and as constituting and promoting food practices that are culturally degrading.
