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Changing consumption, changing tastes? Exploring consumer narratives for…
Changing consumption, changing tastes? Exploring consumer narratives for food secure, sustainable and healthy diets (Paddock 2017)
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Introduction
Changing diets are a symptom of shifting tastes and preferences- case study across the Turks and Caicos Islands- fast growing food insecurity because of environmental degradation, changing climate and increasing reliance on imports- increasing consumption of salty and fatty foods
Trade liberalisation and urbanisation increasing consumption of foods associated with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and heart disease- associated with a aspiration to a modern and 'Americanised' diet.
Explore narratives expressed through interviews with women across the islands. The commercialisation undermines food security as an inevitable force of development
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4. Changing consumption, changing tastes?
over 90% of food consumed on the islands imported from the US, majority of fish consumed on the island- imported . National fisheries exploited to unsustainable levels- catch double the baseline estimate
Junk an convenience foods shift, much more readily accompanying a modern lifestyle of work in tourism and commerce, elss foods needing preparation, cooking and clearing up
Price matters as does lack of time, but indirectly
4.1 Discernment, quality and provenance
Fresh fruits and vegetables imported into the island which are simply unavailable or inaccessible for many at affordable prices- relying on the 'Dominican boat'
Many concerns associated with "unnatural chemicals" that come from eating high fat and high sugar convenience or preserved foods
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