Format:
1 Online-Ressource (592 Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-90-8686-575-8
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90-8686-575-5
Content:
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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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789086860081
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9086860087
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
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Biology
Keywords:
Agrarpolitik
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Ethik
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Ernährungspolitik
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Ethik
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.3920/978-90-8686-575-8
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Kaiser, Matthias, 1951-
