The sage encyclopedia of food issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business consumerism marketing and environmentalism. The sage encyclopedia of food issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business consumerism marketing and environmentalism in contrast to the existing reference works on the topic of food that tend to fall into the categories of cultural perspectives this carefully balanced academic encyclopedia focuses on social and policy aspects of food production safety regulation labeling marketing distribution and . The sage encyclopedia of food issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business consumerism marketing and. Attempts to be comprehensive eg cannibalism church suppers smoking in restaurants but omits an alarmingly large number of crucial areas particularly dietary impact on the fetus menstruation and diet teen diet geriatric diet food cravings aboriginal diet and insects and rodents in hunger diets