Food, ethics, and society : an introductory text with readings / Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, Tyler Doggett
- Published:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Physical Description:
- viii, 664 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Barnhill, Anne
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The ethically troubling food system. As the world's population grows, hunger persists on a massive scale / Kenneth R. Weiss -- The price of tomatoes / Barry Estabrook -- The truth about eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Eating animals and personal guilt : the individualization of responsibility for factory farming / Grace Boey -- Stuffed and starved / Raj Patel -- The food movement, rising / Michael Pollan -- 2. Global hunger. Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Overpopulation and the collapse of civilization / Paul Ehrlich -- Hunger and entitlements / Amartya Sen -- Response to effective altruism / Angus Deaton -- The Great Escape is an excellent book with one big flaw / Bill Gates -- More than one billion people are hungry in the world: But what if the experts are wrong? / Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo -- 3. Food justice. Witness to hunger and FRAC, Angel's story / Marianna Chilton -- Food justice and collective food relations / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Five faces of oppression / Iris Marion Young -- If they only knew: The unbearable whiteness of alternative food / Julie Guthman -- Declaration of Nyéléni -- Food security and food sovereignty / Paul B. Thompson -- 4. Consumer ethics. How to argue for (and against) ethical veganism / Tristram McPherson -- The inefficacy objection to utilitarian theories of the ethics of the marketplace / Mark Budolfson -- Act consequentialism and inefficacy / Eliot Michaelson -- A Kantian response to futility worries? / Eliot Michaelson -- Freeganism and food waste / Peter Singer and Jim Mason., 5. Food and identity. Food and identity : fitting in and standing out / Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal -- Common bods and frybread power: Government food aid in American Indian culture / Dana Vantrease -- Consumer culture and participatory democracy : the story of Coca-Cola / Mark Weiner -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol Adams -- "Now then--who said biscuits?" : The black woman cook as fetish in American advertising / Alice A. Deck -- Cultural food colonialism / Lisa M. Heldke -- 6. Food and religion. Compassionate eating as care of creation / Matthew C. Halteman -- Compassion towards animals, and vegetarianism / Wendy Doniger -- Selections from Laws of Manu -- Indigenous traditions / Lisa Kemmerer -- 7. Industrial animal agriculture. Pew Commission says industrial scale farm animal production poses "unacceptable" risks to public health, environment / Pew Foundation -- Pew Commission on industrial farm animal production. Update / Marion Nestle -- The welfare of animals in the meat, egg, and dairy industries / Humane Society of the USA -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- It's getting better all the time / Torbjörn Tännsjö -- Getting animals in view / Christine Korsgaard -- 8. Alternatives to industrial animal agriculture. Animal welfare / Joel Salatin -- Eating our friends / Roger Scruton -- The moral significance of animal pain and animal death / Elizabeth Harman -- No face, but plants like life, too / Carol Kaesuk Yoon -- 9. Industrial plant agriculture. Feeding a world of 10 billion people / Norman Borlaug -- Selections from The Locavore's Dilemma / Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu -- The truth about GMOs / Pamela Ronald -- GMOs and preventing hunger / Rosamond Naylor -- Why I'm still skeptical of GMOs / Tom Philpott., and 10. Alternatives to industrial plant agriculture. The real story of "O" / Joan Dye Gussow -- Can organic agriculture feed the world? And is that the right question? / Fred Kirschenmann -- A grand experiment / Bill McKibben -- Local food : the moral case / Helena De Bres -- Rising to food waste challente / Michelle Paratore -- What "big ideas" in food get funded in Silicon Valley? / Austin Kiessig -- 11. Workers. Farm workers / Seth Holmes -- Slaughterhouse workers / Timothy Pachirat -- Restaurant workers / Saru Jayaraman -- The value of consent / Alan Wertheimer -- Exploitation and the vulnerability clause / Hallie Liberto -- 12. Overconsumption and obesity. The mindless margin / Brian Wansink -- The end of overeating / David Kessler -- Lunchtime is all yours / Michael Moss -- The politics of food choice / Marion Nestle -- How the economy makes us fat / Eric A. Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman -- Obesity: Chasing an elusive epidemic / Daniel S. Goldberg and Rebecca M. Puhl -- Can't stomach it: How Michael Pollan et al. made me want to eat cheetos / Julie Guthman -- 13. Paternalism and public health. Paternalism / Gerald Dworkin -- Selections from Hudge / Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein -- Soft paternalism and its discontents / Cass R. Sunstein -- Coercive paternalism / Sarah Conly -- The value in sweet drinks / Alva Noë.
- Summary:
- Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings presents seventy-three readings that address real-world ethical issues at the forefront of the food ethics debate. Topics covered include hunger, food justice, consumer ethics, food and identity, food and religion, raising plants and animals, food workers, overconsumption, obesity, and paternalism. The selections are enhanced by chapter and reading introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading. Ideal for both introductory and interdisciplinary courses, Food, Ethics, and Society explains basic philosophical concepts for new students and forges new ground on several ethical debates--Publisher's website.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780199321742 (pbk.)
0199321744 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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