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The Social Process of Defining Quality Food, Based on the Opinions of Polish Consumer Cooperative Members

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This article describes how members of consumer cooperatives define quality food. Cooperatives are seen as one of the forms of Alternative Food Networks. The concept of quality food is defined subjectively. The analysis presented in the paper is based on the results of a questionnaire conducted in winter 2015/2016 among members of consumer cooperatives in Poland. The spontaneously made three main associations with the notion of “high quality food” indicate that customers consider qualities that are the result of the ways and methods of production. Food quality and safety are the results of individual and organisational trust and mutual relations, among consumers themselves as well as between consumers and producers. In the case of mass-produced food, issues of safety have become crucial: for the indicated group food safety means shifting from the rules of the “industrial world” to the rules of the “domestic world” where safety is the result of trust, direct consumer/supplier relations, and/or traditions rather than standardised

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  • Śpiewak, Ruta, 2016. "The Social Process of Defining Quality Food, Based on the Opinions of Polish Consumer Cooperative Members," Village and Agriculture (Wieś i Rolnictwo), Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN), Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, vol. 4(173).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:polvaa:268632
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.268632
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    1. Wojciech Goszczyński & Ruta Śpiewak & Aleksandra Bilewicz & Michał Wróblewski, 2019. "Between Imitation and Embeddedness: Three Types of Polish Alternative Food Networks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-19, December.
    2. Goszczyński Wojciech, 2019. "In Search of the Vocabulary for Eastern European Food Studies. Conceptual Remarks After the Workshop: Alternative Food Supply Networks in Central and Eastern Europe," Eastern European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 25(1), pages 273-279, December.

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