Food, Ethics, and Society An Introductory Text with Readings

by Barnhill, Anne; Budolfson, Mark; Doggett, Tyler

• ISBN13: 9780199321742
• ISBN10: 0199321744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-08-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings

ISBN: 9780199321742

Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings is a comprehensive textbook designed to address real-world ethical issues in the food industry. This book is a go-to resource for students and educators alike, offering a detailed exploration of the ethical dimensions of food production, consumption, and society.

Who Uses It?

Primarily, this book is used by students and instructors in courses related to food ethics, philosophy, and policy at the college and university levels. It's also a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the ethical implications of food systems, including professionals looking to refresh their knowledge or expand their understanding of food ethics and policy.

History and Editions

The first edition of Food, Ethics, and Society was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. This edition includes seventy-three readings that address a wide range of ethical issues in the food industry, from hunger and food justice to consumer ethics and the treatment of food workers. The book has been widely adopted in academic settings due to its comprehensive coverage of contemporary food ethics topics.

Author and Other Works

Anne Barnhill is a Research Scholar with the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She has a strong background in bioethics and food policy, which she brings to this text. Mark Budolfson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Food Systems at the University of Vermont. He has contributed significantly to the field of food ethics through his research and teaching. Tyler Doggett is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont, where he also serves on the faculty of the food systems PhD program.

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• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: August 16, 2016
• Number of Pages: 672 pages
• Language: English
• Dimensions: 7.50 inches (width) x 9.00 inches (height) x 1.20 inches (depth)

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• Comprehensive Coverage: The book covers a wide range of ethical issues in the food industry, including hunger, food justice, consumer ethics, and the treatment of food workers.
• Real-World Readings: The text includes seventy-three readings that address real-world ethical issues at the forefront of food ethics.
• Author Expertise: The authors bring a wealth of knowledge in bioethics and food policy to the text.
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Author Biography

Anne Barnhill is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Budolfson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Food Systems at the University of Vermont.

Tyler Doggett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont, where he also serves on the faculty of the food systems PhD program.

Table of Contents

1. The Ethically Troubling Food System
1. Ken Weiss, "As World Population Grows, Hunger Persists on a Massive Scale"
2. Barry Estabrook, "The Price of Tomatoes"
3. Jonathan Safran Foer, "The Truth about Eating Animals"
4. Grace Boey, "Eating Animals and Personal Guilt: The Individualization of Responsibility for Factory Farming"
5. Raj Patel, "Stuffed and Starved"
6. Michael Pollan, "The Food Movement, Rising"
2. Global Hunger
1. Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"
2. Paul Ehrlich, "Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization"
3. Amartya Sen, "Hunger and Entitlements"
4. Angus Deaton, "Response to Effective Altruism"
5. Bill Gates, "The Great Escape Is an Excellent Book with One Big Flaw"
6. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, "More than One Billion People Are Hungry in the World: But What If the Experts Are Wrong?"
3. Food Justice
1. Marianna Chilton, "Witnesses to Hunger" and FRAC, "Angel's Story"
2. Kyle Powys Whyte, "Food Justice and Collective Food Relations"
3. Iris Marion Young, "Five Faces of Oppression"
4. Julie Guthman, "If Only They Knew: The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food" (from Cultivating Food Justice)
5. "The Declaration of Nyéléni"
6. Paul Thompson, "Food Security and Food Sovereignty"
4. Consumer Ethics
1. Tristram McPherson, "How to Argue for (and against) Ethical Veganism"
2. Mark Budolfson, "The Inefficacy Objection to Utilitarian Theories of the Ethics of the Marketplace "
3. Eliot Michaelson, "Act Utilitarianism and Inefficacy"
4. Eliot Michaelson, "A Kantian Response to Futility Worries?"
5. Peter Singer and Jim Mason, "Freeganism and Food Waste"
6. Jonathan Safran Foer and Aaron Gross, "On (Not) Eating Animals"
5. Food and Identity
1. Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal, "Food and Identity: Fitting In and Standing Out"
2. Dana Vantrease, "Commod Bods and Frybread Power: Government Food Aid in American Indian Culture"
3. Mark Weiner, "Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca-Cola"
4. Carol Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat"
5. Alice A. Deck, "'Now Then--Who Said Biscuits?' The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising"
6. Lisa Heldke, "Cultural Food Colonialism"
6. Food and Religion (co-written with Matthew C. Halteman)
1. Matthew C. Halteman, "Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation"
2. Wendy Doniger, "Compassion Towards Animals, and Vegetarianism"
3. Selections from Laws of Manu
4. Lisa Kemmerer, "Indigenous Traditions"
7. Industrial Animal Agriculture
1. Pew Foundation, "Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses 'Unacceptable' Risks to Public Health, Environment"
2. Marion Nestle, "Pew Commission on Industrial Animal Production: Update"
3. Humane Society of the USA, "The Welfare of Animals in the Meat, Egg, and Dairy Industry"
4. Peter Singer, "All Animals Are Equal"
5. Torbjörn Tännsjö, "It's Getting Better All the Time"
6. Christine Korsgaard, "Getting Animals in View"
8. Alternatives to Industrial Animal Agriculture
1. Joel Salatin, "Animal Welfare"
2. Roger Scruton, "Eating Our Friends"
3. Elizabeth Harman, "The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Animal Death"
4. Carol Kaesuk Yoon, "No Face, but Plants Like Life Too"
9. Industrial Plant Agriculture
1. Norman Borlaug and Christopher Dowswell, "Feeding a World of Ten Billion People"
2. Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu, selections from The Locavore's Dilemma
3. Pamela Ronald, "The Truth about GMOs"
4. Rosamond Naylor, "GMOs and Preventing Hunger"
5. Tom Philpott, "Why I'm Still Skeptical of GMOs"
10. Alternatives to Industrial Plant Agriculture
1. Joan Dye Gussow, "The Real Story of 'O'"
2. Fred Kirschenmann, "Can Organic Farming Feed the World? And Is That the Right Question?"
3. Bill McKibben, "A Grand Experiment"
4. Helena DeBres, "Local Food: The Moral Case"
5. Michelle Paratore, "Rising to the Food Waste Challenge"
6. Austin Kiessig, "What 'Big Ideas' in Food Get Funded in Silicon Valley?"
11. Workers
1. Seth Holmes, "Farm Workers"
2. Timothy Pachirat, "Slaughterhouse Workers"
3. Saru Jayaraman, "Restaurant Workers"
4. Alan Wertheimer, "The Value of Consent"
5. Hallie Liberto, "Exploitation and the Vulnerability Clause"
12. Overconsumption and Obesity
1. Brian Wansink, "The Mindless Margin"
2. David Kessler, "The End of Overeating"
3. Michael Moss, "Lunchtime Is All Yours"
4. Marion Nestle, "The Politics of Food Choice"
5. Eric A. Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman, "How the Economy Makes Us Fat"
6. Daniel Callahan, "Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic"
7. Daniel S. Goldberg and Rebecca M. Puhl, "Obesity Stigma: A Failed and Ethically Dubious Strategy"
8. Julie Guthman, "Can't Stomach It: How Michael Pollan et al. Made Me Want to Eat Cheetos"
13. Paternalism and Public Health
1. Gerald Dworkin, "Paternalism"
2. Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, selections from Nudge
3. Cass Sunstein, "Soft Paternalism and Its Discontents"
4. Sarah Conly, "Coercive Paternalism"
5. Alva Noë, "The Value in Sweet Drinks"