Food Adulteration and Food Fraud: The Hidden Economics of Trust in Food Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Food Adulteration and Food Fraud by Jonathan Rees as an entry point, this episode explores the trust architecture underlying modern food production.
Rather than treating food fraud as a collection of isolated scandals, the discussion examines how industrialization, global trade, and supply-chain opacity create recurring opportunities for substitution, misrepresentation, and economic deception. The episode traces the incentives that drive these outcomes, the institutions that attempt to regulate them, and…
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