Food, Justice, and Animals - Feeding the World Respectfully

In Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully, Josh Milburn questions if the vegan food system risks cutting off many people's pursuit of the 'good life', risks exacerbating food injustices, and risks negative outcomes for animals.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The trouble with veganism


• 2: Bugs and bivalves


• 3: Plant-based meat


• 4: A defence of cellular agriculture


• 5: A positive case for cultivated meat


• 6: Eggs


• 7: Creating and sustaining just food systems


• Conclusion: Having our cow, and eating her too


• Bibliography

About the author

Josh Milburn is a British philosopher and a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University. He has previously worked at the University of Sheffield, the University of York, and Queen's University (in Canada), before which he studied at Queen's University Belfast and Lancaster University. He is the author of Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022), and the regular host of the animal studies podcast Knowing Animals.

Summary

In Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully, Josh Milburn questions if the vegan food system risks cutting off many people's pursuit of the 'good life', risks exacerbating food injustices, and risks negative outcomes for animals.

Additional text

Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Josh (Lecturer in Political Philosophy Milburn, Josh Milburn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2023
• EAN: 9780192867469
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286746-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Animals & society, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political science and theory, Animals and society