ABSTRACT
Improving food integrity in light of the climate change and urbanization challenges gives rise to clashes between public and private law, between genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and agroecology. These challenges may appear to be self-defeating and at an impasse when it comes to gGenetically mModified oOrganisms (GMOs, also called GE or GM crops). This chapter is about finding perspective shifts to get our food system “unstuck.” Here, the disciplinary lense is that of the law. Focusing on the food system, this chapter explores whether private law has sufficiently protected food or whether public law control is needed to safeguard food integrity. Specifically, food integrity describes an ideal direction for the relationships and shall be defined as the measure of environmental sustainability and climate change resilience, combined with food safety, security, and sovereignty for the farm-to-fork production and distribution of any food product.
