People frame structural food-safety risks as voluntary lifestyle choices.

Evidence

I have some control over that. I don’t have to buy that fruit. You know, it’s a personal choice, like, do I buy cigarettes and take the chance that I will or will not get cancer? That’s a personal choice. Same with the fruit. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 78

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the evasion methods discussed around the parables — converting systemic risk into private consumer judgment aligns with the wider library themes of individualised responsibility for shared problems. — connects to: Risk perception varies subjectively and shaped modern risk-calculating individualism — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1400; People fear statistically rare dangers and ignore common ones — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 183; Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment (+1 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 78

Related

• Risk perception varies subjectively and shaped modern risk-calculating individualism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Risk perception varies subjectively and shaped modern risk-calculating individualism #expands (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1400
• People fear statistically rare dangers and ignore common ones #expands (0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 183
• Trust rests on expectations about others’ actions bearing identifiable risk #contradicts (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2424
• Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment #qualifies (0.72)