Food ethics

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gottwald, Franz-Theo (Author), Ingensiep, Hans Werner , 1953- (Author), Meinhardt, Marc (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer , c2010
Subjects:
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