Ethics and the politics of food preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSAFE 2006, Oslo, Norway, June 22-24, 2006
Food has emerged as a political topic par excellence. It is increasingly involved in controversies at a transnational level, in relation to issues of access, dominance, trade and control in a shared global environment. At the same time, innovations in biotechnology and animal domestication have brou...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Food has emerged as a political topic par excellence. It is increasingly involved in controversies at a transnational level, in relation to issues of access, dominance, trade and control in a shared global environment. At the same time, innovations in biotechnology and animal domestication have brought ethics to the forefront of food debates. Thus, we live in an era when the ethics and the politics of food must come together. This book addresses the ethics and the politics of food from a broad range of academic disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, nutrition, anthropology, ethics, political science and history. The chapters expose novel problem areas, and suggest guidelines for approaching them. Topics range from fundamental issues in philosophy to sustainability, from consumer trust in food to ethical toolkits. Transparency, power and responsibility are key concerns, and s |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes Table of contents; Preface: Ethics and the politics of food; Keynote papers; Political consumerism: Why the market is an arena for politics; Whales as persons; Can food safety policy-making be both scientifically and democratically legitimated? If so, how?; Part 1 Politics and ethics of transparency; Consumer concerns and ethical traceability: outline of a liberal argument; Ethical traceability; Towards value based autonomy in livestock farming?; Participatory methods and food policy: Different approaches for different purposes; Farmers markets as a new arena for communication on food Consumer information about farm animal welfare: A study of national differencesThe presence of animal welfare-friendly bodies: An organised or disorganised achievement in the food supply chain; Private regulatory approaches and the challenge of pesticide use; Organic values and animal production; Part 2 Foundational issues in philosophy and ethics; Biotechnology, disagreement and the limitations of public debate; Cynicism and corporate integrity: Obstacles and possibilities for moral communication; Protecting future generations through submajority rule Scientific advice and the ideal of certaintyControlling biodiversity? Ethical analysis of the case of swine fever and wild boar in Denmark; The moral basis of vegetarianism; Problems of principlism; Passive nature and safe food?; The human and social sciences in interdisciplinary biotechnology research: Trojan horses or useful idiots?; Moral co-responsibility in food production and consumption; Genetically modified foods between ethics and public policy; Part 3 Trust in food; Food safety in Europe: New policy and shifting responsibilities Politicising consumer trust in food: A socio-institutional explanation to variations in trustWhy increasing predictability cannot do the job alone when we aim to establish trust in the agri-food sector; Part 4 Ethics and safety in food discourse; GMO controversy in Japan over test growing of PEPC transgenic rice plants; Uncertainty and precaution; challenges and implications for science and policy of DNA vaccines in aquaculture; Heuristics of precaution: Towards a substantial consideration of ethics in the regulation of agri-food biotechnology risks Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoringA critical appraisal of the UNESCO version of the Precautionary Principle; Biosecurity research and agroterrorism: Are there ethical issues at stake?; Part 5 Sustainability in food production; No-one at the helm: World trade, sustainability and farm animal welfare; Integrative sustainability concept: Operationalisation for the food and agriculture sector; Ethical and organic? Exploring the contradictions from a local community of small family farmers of southern Brazil |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (592 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789086865758 9086865755 |
| DOI: | 10.3920/978-90-8686-575-8 |