Food ethics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: food ethics in a globalized world-reality and utopia
- 2. The ethical matrix as a tool in policy interventions: the obesity crisis
- 3. Ethical traceability for improved transparency in the food chain
- 4. Ethics and genetically modified foods
- 5. Responsible agro-food biotechnology: precaution as public reflexivity and ongoing engagement in the service of sustainable development
- 6. Precautionary approaches to genetically modified organisms and the need for biosafety research
- 7. Biotechnology, battery farming and animal dignity
- 8. Agricultural trade and the human right to food: the case of small rice producers in Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia
- 9. Hunger, poverty, and climate change: institutional approaches, a new business alliance, and civil courage to live up to ethical standards
- 10. Food versus fuel: governance potential for water rivalry
- 11. Whose nature-whose water? some remarks about the history of ideas, property and democracy of water
- 12. Towards a new architecture of agricultural trade in the world market
- 13. Epilogue: the schweisfurth foundation-a German food-ethics-platform