Ethics and the politics of food : preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSAFE 2006, Oslo, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 / / edited by Matthias Kaiser, Marianne Elisabeth Lien.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (593 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Table of contents""; ""Preface: Ethics and the politics of food""; ""Keynote papers""; ""Political consumerism: Why the market is an arena for politics""; ""Whales as persons""; ""Can food safety policy-making be both scientifically and democratically legitimated? If so, how?""; ""Part 1 Politics and ethics of transparency""; ""Consumer concerns and ethical traceability: outline of a liberal argument""; ""Ethical traceability""; ""Towards value based autonomy in livestock farming?""; ""Participatory methods and food policy: Different approaches for different purposes""
  • ""Farmers markets as a new arena for communication on food""""Consumer information about farm animal welfare: A study of national differences""; ""The presence of animal welfare-friendly bodies: An organised or disorganised achievement in the food supply chain""; ""Private regulatory approaches and the challenge of pesticide use""; ""Organic values and animal production""; ""Part 2 Foundational issues in philosophy and ethics""; ""Biotechnology, disagreement and the limitations of public debate""; ""Cynicism and corporate integrity: Obstacles and possibilities for moral communication""
  • ""Protecting future generations through submajority rule""""Scientific advice and the ideal of certainty""; ""Controlling biodiversity? Ethical analysis of the case of swine fever and wild boar in Denmark""; ""The moral basis of vegetarianism""; ""Problems of principlism""; ""Passive nature and safe food?""; ""The human and social sciences in interdisciplinary biotechnology research: Trojan horses or useful idiots?""; ""Moral co-responsibility in food production and consumption""; ""Genetically modified foods between ethics and public policy""; ""Part 3 Trust in food""
  • ""Food safety in Europe: New policy and shifting responsibilities""""Politicising consumer trust in food: A socio-institutional explanation to variations in trust""; ""Why increasing predictability cannot do the job alone when we aim to establish trust in the agri-food sector""; ""Part 4 Ethics and safety in food discourse""; ""GMO controversy in Japan over test growing of PEPC transgenic rice plants""; ""Uncertainty and precaution; challenges and implications for science and policy of DNA vaccines in aquaculture""
  • ""Heuristics of precaution: Towards a substantial consideration of ethics in the regulation of agri-food biotechnology risks""""Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoring""; ""A critical appraisal of the UNESCO version of the Precautionary Principle""; ""Biosecurity research and agroterrorism: Are there ethical issues at stake?""; ""Part 5 Sustainability in food production""; ""No-one at the helm: World trade, sustainability and farm animal welfare""
  • ""Integrative sustainability concept: Operationalisation for the food and agriculture sector""