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000007712 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/8s45q932q
000007712 037__ $$aETD
000007712 245__ $$aThe illusion of choice in the grocery store: grocery stores and the construction of food choice
000007712 260__ $$bMarylhurst University: Oregon Health and Science University
000007712 269__ $$a2018
000007712 336__ $$aThesis
000007712 502__ $$gFood Systems & Society
000007712 502__ $$bM.S.
000007712 520__ $$aAlternative food systems make consumers think about food as more than a commodity, as a social relation. Many of these systems, such as local, organic, non-GMO, farmers' markets, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), are positioned as supplements to the conscious consumer's diet rather than the one-stop shop to purchase all of their food. These alternatives to traditional food attempt to achieve social change from the periphery, rather than at the core, leaving them with limited ability to impact systemic social change. The core of food systems, on the contrary, has access to millions of consumers and the potential to create systemic change. This core is the market between food producers and food consumers: the grocery store. This research addresses grocery store marketing regulations, standards, and practices because I wanted to learn what role grocery stores have in constructing consumer food choices so that grocery stores can be held responsible and seen as an intervention point for the increasing rates of diet-related public health issues in low-income populations. This thesis finds that there is a lack of public regulations and the dominance of private industry standards and practices that govern grocery industry marketing of processed, shelf-stable foods over whole, fresh foods.
000007712 542__ $$fIn copyright - single owner
000007712 650__ $$aPublic Health$$024885
000007712 650__ $$aHealth Status Disparities$$037944
000007712 650__ $$aDeficiency Diseases$$017437
000007712 691__ $$aSchool of Medicine
000007712 692__ $$aGraduate Programs in Human Nutrition$$041470
000007712 7001_ $$aThompson, Megan$$uMarylhurst University
000007712 8564_ $$9222a9757-bae3-4d2f-a35e-33563887c87c$$s1072358$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7712/files/Thompson.Megan.2018.pdf$$ePublic$$25f27a284b2a48942b63128d86a32b907$$31
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000007712 909CO $$ooai:digitalcollections.ohsu.edu:7712$$pstudent-work
000007712 980__ $$aTheses and Dissertations