Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain

Hillary J. Shaw is Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research spans sustainable economic development, corporate social responsibility, and the integration of global and local food systems. He is the author of many journal articles, essays, reviews, reports and books, including The Consuming Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity (Routledge, 2014).Julia J.A. Shaw is Professor of Law and Social Justice in the School of Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, and publications include Jurisprudence (3rd edition, Pearson 2018) and Law and the Passions: A Discrete History (Routledge, 2019).

• Introduction: Why do companies exist?Chapter 1: Feasting Cavemen and Responsible Giants1.1The eternal modern feast of supermarkets1.2 The growth of the supermarkets1.3 Food hedonism1.4 The growing obesity epidemic1.5 The multiple dimensions of economies of scale in supermarkets1.6 What is CSR?1.7 ‘Provisions’ as a Fourth Bottom Line; why we need enhanced supermarket CSR1.8 Is anything wrong with supermarket corporate social responsibility?1.9 The need for more accountable, comparable and long-term CSR 1.10 The need for other actors in the realm of supermarket corporate social responsibility Chapter 2: Food justice as social justice: towards a new regulatory framework in support of a basic human right to healthy food2.1 The need for regulatory reform to address food injustice2.2 Hungry for justice: the right to nutritional food and a healthy diet2.3 Social stratification, poverty and the unequal burden of family health and nutrition2.4 A Rawlsian approach to alleviating food poverty as a fundamental principle of social justice2.5 The reciprocal influence of egalitarian institutions as a basic requirement of social justice2.6 Between theory and reality: from moral law to soft law solutions2.7 The potential and limits of corporate social responsibility2.8 Beyond CSR, soft law and traditional regulatory models 2.9 ‘Proximity’ via Levinas and the law of tort: social responsibility begins in the neighbourhood2.10 Can there ever be a human right to healthy food? Chapter 3 Food Retailing, Society and the Economy3.1 From laissez-faire to planning regulations3.2 Behemoths versus Boroughs3.3 Supermarket land banks3.4. Other supermarket planning issues3.5. Respect for other nations’ laws and culture3.6. Supermarkets and competition with other retailers3.7 Supermarket competition with retailers in the developing world3.8. Supermarkets and job creation3.9 Supermarket pay levelsChapter 4 Food retailing and the environment4.1 Energy use in the food chain4.2 Food miles4.3 Water usage4.4. Sustainability of the food chain4.5 Sustainability of fishing4.6 Sustainability of the rainforest4.7 Plastic pollution4.8 Binning the plastic4.9 Food waste Chapter 5 Food retailing and supermarket suppliers5.1. Supermarket monopsonies and farm prices5.2. The price of milk5.3 Other supermarket food prices5.4 Supermarket clothing prices5.5 Supermarket payments to suppliers5.6. The pressures on rural society5.7 Animal welfare5.8 Food LabellingChapter 6 Food Retailing, Community and Consumers6.1 Assistance for customers6.2. Local charity donations6.3. Food banks6.4. Tesco Computers for Schools 6.5. Other supermarket charitable donations6.6. Supermarket customer data 6.7. Effort made by supermarkets to ensure the food from food processors is healthier.6.8. Marketing to children6.9. Supermarket food labellingChapter 7 Other food suppliers and food promoters7.1. Schools, prisons and the military7.2. Hospitals and care homes7.3. Television and other advertising.7.4. TaxationChapter 8: Supermarket CSR initiatives now, and change for future health and sustainability 8.1. A classification of current supermarket CSR initiatives8.2. The feel-good factor of CSR8.3. Refocussing CSR towards health and sustainability8.4. Keeping the supermarkets intact, candid, responsible and responsive

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