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Zusatztext Thompson is the outsider's insider. Having worked within and beside top programs in agricultural research throughout his career, he is also sympathetic toward the alternatives to current agricultural production and their advocates. From Field to Fork offers an even-handed ethical analysis that emphasizes making better choices rather than deriving rigid rules based in ideology. This book should set the agenda for the emergent food ethic. Informationen zum Autor Paul B. Thompson has been a leading scholar in food ethics for over thirty years. He was present at the founding of three professional societies for food ethics and has served in an advisory capacity for the U.S. National Research Council, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Genome Canada, and Wageningen University and Research Institute in the Netherlands , among others. He edited the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Springer) and writes a blog for Thornapple Community Supported Agriculture in Lansing MI. Klappentext A comprehensive study of food ethics. Zusammenfassung Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, with a Rough Guide to Ethics Chapter 1: You Are NOT What You Eat Chapter 2: Food Ethics and Social Injustice Chapter 3: The Ethics of Diet and Obesity Chapter 4: The Fundamental Problem of Food Ethics Chapter 5: Livestock Welfare and the Ethics of Producing Meat Chapter 6: The Allure of the Local: Food Systems and Environmental Impact Chapter 7: Green Revolution Food Technology and Its Discontents Chapter 8: Once More, This Time with Feeling: Ethics, Risk and the Future of Food Bibliography ...
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Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality.
