None of us can avoid being interested in food. Our very existence depends on the supply of safe, nutritious foods. It is then hardly surprising that food has become the focus of a wide range of ethical concerns: Is the food we buy safe? Is it produced by means which respect the welfare of animals and sustain the land? Are modern biotechnologies employed in food production immoral? This book addresses such issues by applying ethical principles to many areas of current concern. The contributors provide original and thought-provoking treatments of a number of highly topical issues - from global hunger and its ethical implications to the cultural habits affecting consumption. This interdisciplinary study will prove to be essential reading for all those concerned with food, as professionals, students or consumers.
Author(s): Ben Mepham
Series: Professional Ethics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series editors' foreword......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Global hunger: moral dilemmas Nigel Dower......Page 16
Food aid and trade John S.Marsh......Page 33
Sustainable food systems Jeremy Cherfas......Page 50
Animals as food producers Andrew Johnson......Page 64
The equation between food production, nutrition and health Michael Crawford and Keb Ghebremeskel......Page 79
Food safety: the ethical dimensions Erik Millstone......Page 99
Ethical analysis of food biotechnologies: an evaluative framework Ben Mepham......Page 116
Bread to biotechnology: cultural aspects of food ethics Leslie Gofton......Page 135
Consumer sovereignty as ethical practice in food marketing Robert Hamilton......Page 153
Ethical issues in agricultural and food research policy Ben Mepham......Page 169
Select bibliography......Page 185
Index......Page 188
