Food ethics
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Food ethics
Springer, c2010
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this first decade of the 21st century, more than 854 million people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics many African and south Asian nations could only fathom. In this great discord, there have arisen many interdisciplinary discussions about problems in the field of applied Ethics, with regards to food, that are crossing a considerably wide spectrum of disciplines, such as: obesity, traceability, agro-food biotechnology, dairy industry, transgenic plants, novel food, bio fuels, world-trade system, etc.
This book presents international discussions and information concerning food ethics in its current state. It presents a variety of important aspects in the field of food ethics with respect to positions, instruments and applications of issues surrounding nutrition. A great deal of the book will concern itself with discussing different ethical positions and problems of current interests, as explained by experts of the "food-ethics-community". The articles will focus on the reality of global food problems through two main issues:
current questions of nutrition in the specific contexts of field and experience,
ethical tools, ideas and suggestions concerning long-term steps for solutions.
The appendix presents a collection of current declarations and political statements - visions, proposals and goals in a worth living world in general and concerning specific problems - water, healthy food, the human right to food, sustainability and food sovereignty.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations.- Food Ethics in a Globalized World--Reality & Utopia.- The Ethical Matrix as a Tool in Policy Interventions: The Obesity Crisis.- Ethical Traceability for Improved Transparency in the Food Chain.- Gary Comstock: Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods.- Responsible Agro-Food Biotechnology. Precaution as Public Reflexivity and Ongoing Engagement in the Service of Sustainable Development.- Precautionary Approaches to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the Need for Biosafety Research.- Biotechnology, Battery Farming and Animal Dignity.- Agricultural Trade and the Human Right to Food: The Case of Small Rice Producers in Ghana, Honduras and Indonesia.- Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change--New Global Challenges for Agriculture.- Food Versus Fuel: Governance Potential for Water Rivalry.- Whose Nature--Whose Water? Some Remarks about the History of Ideas, Property and Democracy of Water.- Principles & a Policy Framework for a New Architecture of Agricultural Trade in the World Market.- Epilogue.
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