The agrifood product between legal and social sciences

«Cooking is never a waste of time. When we buy already cooked foods we accept something foreign to us, we don't really know how they are made, when and by whom. We lose our identity if we live only on what is ready-made, prepared by strangers. And we also lose our humanity, man is the only animal in the world that plants, raises, cooks and cooks the food he eats». In a few lines, Simonetta Agnello Hornby contains an effective summary of the food for thought and questions that food still poses today, and to which this volume tries to give some answers. Food as a matter of law – what do we eat, what are the responsibilities of producers and consumers? – food and health – how far can we go with artificial nutrition, and when does food become an obligation from a right? – food as a link between different cultures, and as a reclamation of an identity which, before being social, is simply human. Through these pages, jurists, social scientists and health sociologists discuss a topic that never ceases to fascinate and divide an increasingly wider audience.