Food ethics
In the first decade of the 21st century, more than 1 billion people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics that many African and south Asian nations find difficult to fathom. Many interdisciplin...
| Other Authors: | Gottwald, Franz-Theo., Ingensiep, Hans Werner, 1953-, Meinhardt, Marc., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Springer,
2010.
New York ; London : 2010. |
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1 online resource. |
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| Summary: |
In the first decade of the 21st century, more than 1 billion people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics that many African and south Asian nations find difficult to fathom. Many interdisciplinary discussions with regard to food have arisen about problems in the field of applied ethics, which encompasses a wide spectrum of disciplines and principles, such as: obesity, traceability, agro-food biotechnology, water, the human right to food, food sovereignty, sustainability, world-trade syste. |
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About the Authors; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Food Ethics in a Globalized World Reality and Utopia; 1.1 Food Ethics and Reality; 1.2 Food Ethics and Utopia; 1.3 Reason Justice as Common Principle for Reality and Utopia; References; Part I Food, Consumers, and Policy; 2 The Ethical Matrix as a Tool in Policy Interventions:The Obesity Crisis; 3 Ethical Traceability for Improved Transparencyin the Food Chain; Part II GM-Food Production; 4 Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods. Includes bibliographical references and index. In the first decade of the 21st century, more than 1 billion people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics that many African and south Asian nations find difficult to fathom. Many interdisciplinary discussions with regard to food have arisen about problems in the field of applied ethics, which encompasses a wide spectrum of disciplines and principles, such as: obesity, traceability, agro-food biotechnology, water, the human right to food, food sovereignty, sustainability, world-trade syste. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781441957658 1441957650 |