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What makes us see some foods as 'wrong' to eat?

Laurie Taylor talks to Michaela DeSoucey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, about the controversies that surround the luxury product foie gras. What makes us see some foods as 'wrong' and worthy of prohibition? They're joined by the distinguished anthropologist, Henrietta Moore.

First broadcast on Thinking Allowed, 30 December 2016.

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