Overview
- A cross-cutting reference work on agricultural and food ethics
- Serves as an introduction to the field for new scholars and as a reference for those working in the fields of agriculture, aquaculture, environmental sciences, and ethics
- Contains topical entries and detailed papers, written from an ethical perspective
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (276 entries)
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Agricultural ethics
- Agrifood
- CAFO
- Food Ethics
- Food rights
- Philosophy of food
- access to land
- agrarian reform
- agricultural development
- agriculture
- animal welfare
- aquaculture
- consumption
- cooking
- development
- development ethics
- diet
- distributive justice
- environmental impact
- fair trade
- farm labor
- fish farming
- fisheries
- food aesthetics
- food industry
- food labeling
- food safety
- food security
- forestry
- grazing
- green revolution
- horticulture
- hunger
- international trade
- labelling
- livestock
- mechanization
- nutrition
- obesity
- organic
- pesticides
- positivism
- protectionism
- regionalism
- rural
- social movement
- sustainability
- whaling
About this book
This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics. It includes summaries of historical approaches, current scholarship, social movements, and new trends from the standpoint of the ethical notions that have shaped them. It combines detailed analyses of specific topics such as the role of antibiotics in animal production, the Green Revolution, and alternative methods of organic farming, with longer entries that summarize general areas of scholarship and explore ways that they are related. Renewed debate, discussion and inquiry into food and agricultural topics have become a hallmark of the turn toward more sustainable policies and lifestyles in the 21st century. Attention has turned to the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, as well as to non-food uses of cultivated biomass and the products of animal husbandry. These wide-ranging debates encompass questions in human nutrition, animal rights and the environmental impacts of aquaculture and agricultural production. Each of these and related topics is both technically complex and involves an – often implicit – ethical dimension. Other topics include methods for integrating ethics into scientific and technical research programs or development projects, the role of intensive agriculture and biotechnology in addressing persistent world hunger and the role of crops, forests and engineered organisms in making a transition to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics proves an indispensible reference point for future research and writing on topics in agriculture and food ethics for decades to come.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul B. Thompson is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, with partial appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Resource Development Departments. He previously held positions as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Food Animal Productivity and Wellbeing at Purdue University and prior to that positions as Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics, at Texas A&M University.
Editorial positions at Springer are a jointly held position of editor-in-chief of the bookseries The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, and membership of the editorial boards of the journals Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
David M. Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He previously held a position at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. He is the currently the Director of the Philosophy of Food Project at the University of North Texas: www.food.unt.edu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics
Editors: Paul B. Thompson, David M. Kaplan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0928-7Published: 29 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0929-4Published: 20 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 1860
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Agriculture, Philosophy of Nature