Course: Food Ethics
Modules:
Welcome to Food Ethics, Empirical Issues, Why Cornell?, Why Princeton?, Introduction to “Food, Inc.” and the Ithaca-Hopewell Model, Food, Inc. Analyzed, Debating Food, Inc., First Dish: A Peek at the Menu, Eating Animals: The Data, Eating Animals: The Arguments, Andrew deCoriolis on the Feed the World Argument, Bittman on Why He’s Not Vegan, Meaty Propaganda: Seeing Through The “Spin”, Paul Shapiro on Ag-Gag Laws, deCoriolis on Humane-washing and Ag-gag Laws, Regenstein Discusses Animal Confinement, Shapiro Discusses Gestation Crates, Regenstein on Anthropomorphism, Shapiro’s Response on Anthropomorphism, deCoriolis on Maternity Pens and Anthropomorphism, Regenstein’s Final Word, Introduction to Moral Theory: The Case of Noah, Introduction to Moral Theory: What Factors Are Relevant?, Utilitarianism, Higher and Lower Pleasures, Ask Professor Singer: Why Do Vegans Eat Plants?, Bezner Kerr and Barrett on Utilitarianism, Introduction to Side Dish One, McWilliams vs. Savory, Regenstein Discusses Antibiotics and Hormones, Baker Discusses Antibiotics, Reflecting on the Least Harm Principle, Colb on Davis-style Arguments
Second Dish: A Peek at the Menu, Regenstein Summarizes His Argument, Regenstein on the Sustainability of the IFS, Regenstein on the Lower Emissions of the IFS, Regenstein on Petrochemicals and the Treatment of Workers, Regenstein on Dairy Farming, Logevall on Seeing the Slaughterhouse, Logevall on Eating Meat After the Slaughterhouse Tour, Salatin on Alt-Farming and New Technologies, Anu Ramaswami: An Engineer Looks at Food Ethics in the Developing World, Ramaswami on Food Waste in India and the West, Vegans, Freegans, Flexitarians, Reducetarians, Peter Singer: Why I Am a (Flexi-)Vegan, Ask Professor Singer: Almonds, Chicken, and Altruistic Omnivorism, Sheila and Gordon on Ethical and Health Motives for Giving Up Meat, Brown on the Myth of “Humane Meat”, Colb on Animals, Plants, Sentience, and Speciesism, Barrett on Cultural Sensitivity in Food Ethics, Ask Professor Singer: Are Individuals (including Andrew) Replaceable?, Introducing Kant, Kant’s Non-consequentialism, Kant on Humanity and Autonomy, Kant on Indirect Duties to Animals: Part 1, Kant on Indirect Duties to Animals: Part 2, Questions for Kant, Adams on the Treatment of Animals and Women, Balcombe on the Morality of Non-human Animals, Introduction to Side Dish Two, Susan Halteman of GFI on Going Vegan (with Kids!), Optional: Deeper Dive on GFI, Susan Halteman on Multi-Solving and What to Call Alt-Meat, Susan Halteman on GFI's Motivations and Strategy, Susan Halteman on the Costs and Benefits of Cultivated Meat, Anu Ramaswami on Cultivated Meat and Cultural Resistance, Gordon Douglas: A Doctor on Alt-Protein and Meat, C-fu: Eating Mealworms, Kill All the Carnivores, McMahan’s Initial Comments, Travis on McMahan, McMahan on Travis-style Objections, Is this Playing God? McMahan Responds to Other Objections
Third Dish: A Peek at the Menu, Divine Command Theory: The Scriptural Method, Divine Command Theory: God Speaks Through Conscience and Reason, Optional: Sacks on Divine Command, Optional: Gisemba on Divine Command, The Euthyphro Dilemma, Regenstein on Kosher and Halal Traditions, Regenstein on Secular Methods: Stunning, Electrocution, Gassing, Vacuuming, Regenstein on Religious Methods: Cutting and Bleeding Out, Regenstein on Religious Slaughter: What Do the Animals Feel?, Matthew Halteman on Anti-vegan Bible Passages: What About the Fish?, Matthew Halteman on Anti-vegan Bible Passages: Pigs and Demons, Introduction to Virtue Ethics and Feminism, Virtue as a Mean Between Extremes, Van Dyke Explains Her Argument, Van Dyke on Relativism, Adams Explains the Sexual Politics of Meat, Van Dyke on Her Vegan Feminist Opponents, Adams Responds to Van Dyke, deCoriolis on Meat, Race, and Cultural Heritage, Anne Cheng on Ethics in Contemporary Chinese Culture, Cheng on the Digestibility of Asian Food and Culture, Cheng on Meat Eating in China and Taiwan, Hanna Garth on Whether Anthropologists Can Do Ethics, McMahan on Moral Theory, Non-Western Ethical Views, Key Concepts of Indian Traditions, Moral Status of Animals in Buddhism, Nonviolence in Jainism, Non-attachment in Indian Traditions, Optional Deep Dive: Jnanavaca on Eating “Skillfully”, Optional Deep Dive: Sagar Shah on Food Ethics in the Jain Tradition, Introduction to Side Dish Three, Food Psychology: Why Do We Eat What We Eat?, Obesity, Stigma, Gender, and Self-Esteem, Food Psychology: The Portion Size Effect on How Much We Eat, How Much of Food Psychology is Implicit?, Shana Weber on Nudging Princeton, Virtue, Stigmatization, and Eating Disorders, The Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics
Fourth Dish: A Peek at the Menu, Food Insecurity and Food Access, How Should We Intervene?, The Legacy of Institutional Racism, Terry on Food Access, Terry on B-Healthy!, Hanna Garth on Why Food Deserts Are Really Food Apartheid, Garth on Non-profits That Try to Promote Food Justice, Garth on “Healthy” Cooking Demos in Underprivileged LA, Terry on Race: Is Veganism Too White?, Garth on Terry’s Effort to Promote Veganism in Black Communities, David Levitsky on the Causes of Obesity, T. Colin Campbell on Animal Protein, Regenstein vs. Campbell, Campbell vs. Casein, Levitsky Raises Questions about Campbell and Casein Addiction, Barrett on Global Food Access, Corporate Responsibility: Stock/Stakeholder, Debate About Corporate Responsibility: Applying Theory, Marion Nestle on Corporate Responsibility, Garth on Black Food Matters in Los Angeles, Garth on How to Fix Food Apartheid, Bezner Kerr on Food Sovereignty, Ramaswami on Urban Gardening, Sustainability, and Well-Being, Sequeira on Community Activism and Food Security, Ask Professor Singer: Racism, Sexism, Speciesism, Introduction to Side Dish Four, Mary Jo Dudley on the Treatment of Workers, Undercover: The Lives of Farmworkers, How Ironbound Farms Houses Its Ex-felon Workers, Debate: Do We Have an Obligation Not to Purchase Food Produced on Sweatshop Farms?, Ask Professor Singer: Migrant Workers and Consumer Complicity
Fifth Dish: A Peek at the Menu, Sanford Introduces The Piggery, Sanford on Demand for Local Food, Sanford on Principles, Kolakowski on Sustainability, Haller and LaClair on Sourcing Local Food, Monica and Paul on Coltivare’s Composting Machine, Salatin on the Ballet of the Pasture, Salatin Contrasts Industrial Agriculture with Polyface Farms, Ironbound Farm’s Version of the Ithaca-Hopewell Model, Objections to the Ithaca-Hopewell Model, McWilliams on Scaling the Ithaca-Hopewell Response, Dingman on Moving From Vegan to Hunter-gatherer, Dingman on Why the Ithaca-Hopewell Response Is Not Sustainable, Terry Responds to Critics of the Ithaca-Hopewell Response, Shana Weber on What Sustainability Is, Weber on the Campus as Lab and Princeton Net Zero, Special Obligations to Neighbors, Terry on the Local Aspect of the Ithaca-Hopewell Model, Guttridge on Local Food, Irene Li: A Student Starting a Family Restaurant, Li on the Ethics of Local Sourcing, Gaulke on Local Food, Food Miles and the Ethics of Consumption, Philpott on Local Food, Charles Rosen on Ironbound’s Community-Based Horizontal Model, McWilliams Against the Locavores, Gary Fick: You Can’t Live in New York and Eat Local!, Frisch on the Local Community, Bezner Kerr on Whether Locavorism is ‘Tribalistic’, Bobolink Farms: Regenerative, Not Organic, Bobolink Farms: Why Have Animals at All?, Bobolink Farms: Treating Farmworkers Well, and the High Cost of Good Food, Bobolink Farms: Can We Feed the World This Way?, deCoriolis on the Ithaca-Hopewell (Bobolink!) Model, Introducing Ethos Farm to Health Medical Center, Rosen on How Ethos Farms Runs Without Animals, How is This a Medical Practice?, Does Veganism Turn Off Cancer?, Princeton Farminary: Introduction, Princeton Farminary: What Happens at the Farminary?, Princeton Farminary: Religion, Charles Rosen on Cider Farming near Newark, New Jersey, Rosen on Regenerative Farming in the Garden State, Rosen on Cultivating Patience with Degenerated Land, Rosen on the Viability of the Community-Based Model, Rosen on the Life of Animals at His Farm, Rosen on Learning to Listen to the Land, Rosen on Philosophy and What We’re Drinking
Dessert: A Peek at the Menu, The Bloomberg Soda Law: For and Against, Conly on Paternalism, Levitsky on Bloomberg, Wansink on Bloomberg, Introduction to Nestle and Food Politics, Nestle on Government Regulation, Nestle on Bias in Academic Research, Regenstein on Bias in Academic Research, Nestle on Whether Scientists are Compromised, Stark on U.S. Governmental Dietary Guidelines, Stark on U.S. Nutrition Policy, Pinstrup-Andersen on World Hunger, Pinstrup-Andersen on Global Food Politics, Barrett on the Right to Food, Arguing About Whether There Is a Right to Food, Hanna Garth and the Socialist Right to Food in Cuba, Garth on Food Justice in Cuba, Garth on Rights to Culturally Specific Food, deCoriolis on the Future, and What Learners Can Do, Sheila and Gordon on Students Making a Difference (with Crickets), Sheila and Gordon on Making a Difference in Retirement, Further Opportunities in the Alt-Meat Space, Ask Professor Singer: What if I Don’t Make a Difference? (And Dumpster-Diving), Food for Thought, and Andrew’s Confessions, What Can You Do? Reasons for Hope, Introduction to Side Dish Six, Anu Rangarajan on the Organic vs. Conventional Distinction, Peter Sutera: A Local Farmer’s Choice Not to Certify, Bezner Kerr on the Green Revolution, McWilliams on Biodiversity, Sutera on Small-Scale Farming Near Ithaca, Rosen Against Farmers’ Markets, McWilliams on Scaling Salatin, McWilliams on Organic Chemicals, Monsanto Canada Inc. vs. Schmeiser, Evaluating the Patenting of GMOs, McWilliams on GMOs, Philpott on GMOs