How to Police Your Food: A Story of Controlling Homes and Bodies in the Early Age of Manufactured Foods

This project addresses three concerns of our day: food, knowledge, and control. These concerns are anchored in debates over environmental and public health inside a world of industrial food. By examining the dawn of this manufactured food system, it argues that decisions about protecting the boundary of nation, home, and body—and defining pure food—were shaped by competing ways of understanding how to grow and know food.