Food ethics
By: Franz-Theo Gottwald, Hans Werner Ingensiep, Marc Meinhardt, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781441957641; 9781441957658
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Food industry and trade; Consumption (Economics); Food supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food ethics in a globalized world :; title: reality and utopia  -- Hans Werner Ingensiep and Marc Meinhardt; title: Food, consumers, and policy. The ethical matrix as a tool in policy interventions :; title: the obesity crisis  -- Ben Mepham ;; title: Ethical traceability for improved transparency in the food chain  -- Christian Coff; title: GM-food production. Ethics and genetically modified foods  -- Gary Comstock ;; title: Responsible agro-food biotechnology :; title: precaution as public reflexivity and ongoing engagement in the service of sustainable development  -- Marian Deblonde ;; title: Precautionary approaches to genetically modified organisms and the need for biosafety research  -- Anne Ingeborg Myhr ;; title: Biotechnology, battery farming and animal dignity  -- Peter Kunzmann; title: Food, globalization, and water. Agricultural trade and the human right to food :; title: the case of small rice producers in Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia  -- Armin Paasch, Frank Garbers, and Thomas Hirsch ;; title: Hunger, poverty, and climate change :; title: institutional approaches, a new business alliance, and civil courage to live up to ethical standards  -- Franz-Theo Gottwald ;; title: Food versus fuel :; title: governance potential for water rivalry  -- Lena Partzsch and Sara Hughes ;; title: Whose nature :; title: whose water :; title: some remarks about the history of ideas, property and democracy of water  -- Uta von Winterfeld ;; title: Towards a new architecture of agricultural trade in the world market  -- Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius ;; title: The Schweisfurth Foundation :; title: a German food-ethics-platform -- Franz-Theo Gottwald.