This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics. It includes summaries of historical approaches, current scholarship, social movements, and new trends from the standpoint of the ethical notions that have shaped them. It combines detailed analyses of specific topics such as the role of antibiotics in animal production, the Green Revolution, and alternative methods of organic farming, with longer entries that summarize general areas of scholarship and explore ways that they are related. Renewed debate, discussion and inquiry into food and agricultural topics have become a hallmark of the turn toward more sustainable policies and lifestyles in the 21st century. Attention has turned to the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, as well as to non-food uses of cultivated biomass and the products of animal husbandry. These wide-ranging debates encompass questions in human nutrition, animal rights and the environmental impacts of aquaculture and agricultural production. Each of these and related topics is both technically complex and involves an often implicit ethical dimension. Other topics include methods for integrating ethics into scientific and technical research programs or development projects, the role of intensive agriculture and biotechnology in addressing persistent world hunger and the role of crops, forests and engineered organisms in making a transition to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics proves an indispensible reference point for future research and writing on topics in agriculture and food ethics for decades to come.
Absentee Landlords and Agriculture.- Access to Land and the Right to
Food.- Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food.- Africa, Food, and Agriculture.-
African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN).- Agrarianism and the Ethics of
Eating.- Agricultural and Food Products in Preferential Trade Agreements.-
Agricultural Cooperatives.- Agricultural Ethics.- Agricultural Science and
Ethics.- Agricultural Sciences and Ethical Controversies of Biofuels.-
Agriculture and Ethical Change.- Agriculture and Finance.- Agriculture of the
Middle.- Alcohol Abstinence and Sobriety.- Alcohol as Food and the Good
Life.- Alimentary Delinquency.- American Cuisine, Existence Of.- American
Food Rhetoric.- Ancestral Cuisine and Cooking Rituals.- Animal Agriculture
and Welfare Footprints.- Animal Welfare in the Context of Animal Production.-
Animal Welfare: A Critical Examination of the Concept.- Aroid Production and
Postharvest Practices.- Artisanal Food Production and Craft.- Asian Cuisine:
Ethical Considerations.- Authenticity in Food.- Beef Production: Ethical
Issues.- Biodiversity.- Biodiversity and Global Development.- Biodynamic
Agriculture.- Bioethics at Purdue University.- Biofuels: Ethical Aspects.-
Biopharming.- Biosecurity and Food Systems.- Biotechnology and Food Policy,
Governance.- Body Image, Gender, and Food.- Brazilian Agriculture.-
Brillat-Savarin and Food.- Buddhism, Cooking, and Eating.- Buddhist
Perspectives on Food and Agricultural Ethics.- Canada, US-EU Beef Hormone
Dispute.- Cannibalism.- Carbon Farming.- Carnism.- Centre for Animal Welfare
and Ethics.- Child Nutrition Guidelines and Gender.- Chinese Agriculture.-
Chocolate: Ethical Dimensions.- Christian Ethics and Vegetarianism.-
Christian Mysticism and Food.- Christian Perspectives on Food and
Agricultural Ethics.- Christian Stewardship in Agriculture.- Christianity and
Food.- Civic Agriculture.- Climate Change, Ethics, and Food Production.-
Community-Supported Agriculture.- Company Identity in the Food Industry.-
Conservation Agriculture: Farmer Adoption and Policy Issues.-
Conventionalization Hypothesis.- Cooking Tools and Techniques: Ethical
Issues.- Cooking, Food Consumption, and Globalization: Ethical
Considerations.- Corporate Farms.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Food.-
Cosmopolitanism, Localism and Food.- Cross-Contamination of Crops in
Horticulture.- Cuban Agriculture.- Culinary Cosmopolitanism.- Culinary
Tourism.- Derrida and Eating.- East European Agriculture.- Eating Disorders.-
Eating Disorders and Disturbed Eating.- Eating Etiquette.- Eating and
Nutrition.- Eating Invasive Species.- Eating, Feeding and the Human Life
Cycle.- Eating, Feeding, and Disability.- Ecofeminist Food Ethics.- Economy
of Agriculture and Food.- Ecosystems, Food, Agriculture, and Ethics.-
Ecotopia.- Egg Production: Ethical Issues.- Emergency Food System: Soup
Kitchens and Food Pantries.- Environmental and Animal Pragmatism.-
Environmental Ethics.- Environmental Justice and Food.- Epicureanism and
Food.- Equipment Sharing in Agriculture.- Escoffier.- Ethical Activism with
Consideration of the Routine of Food Culture.- Ethical Assessment of Dieting,
Weight Loss, and Weight Cycling.- Ethical Matrix and Agriculture.- Ethics and
Food Taste.- Ethics of Agricultural Development and Food Rights in
International Organizations.- Ethics of Dietitians.- Ethics of
Nutrigenomics.- Ethics in Food and Agricultural Sciences.- Ethnicity, Ethnic
Identity, and Food.- EU Regulatory Conflicts over GM Food.- European Cuisine:
Ethical Considerations.- Expertise in Agriculture: Scientific and Ethical
Issues.- Extraterritorial Obligations of States and the Right to Food.- Fair
Trade in Food and Agricultural Products.- Farm Management.- Farmer Types and
Motivation.- Farmers Markets.- Farmer-Scientist Knowledge Exchange.- Farms:
Small Versus Large.- Fasting.- Feeding Children.- Food Porn in Media.- Food
Addiction.- Food Additives and International Trade.- Food Advertising to
Children: Policy, Health, and Gender.- Food Allergies: Ethical Issues.- Food
and Agricultural Trade and National Sovereignty.- Food and Agriculture in
Bangladesh.- Food and Choice.- Food and Class.- Food and Health Policy.- Food
and Life Chances.- Food and Place.- Food and Poverty in High Income
Countries.- Food Rituals.- Food and the Avant-Garde.- Food Animal Production,
Ethics, and Quality Assurance.- Food Assistance and International Trade.-
Food Boycotts.- Food Culture and Chefs.- Food Deserts.- Food Ethics and
Policies.- Food in Ancient Indian Philosophy.- Food Labeling.- Food
Legislation and Regulation: EU, UN, WTO and Private Regulation.- Food Miles.-
Food Not Bombs.- Food Preparation, Cooking, and Ritual in Judaism.- Food
Riots, Historical Perspectives.- Food Risk Communication.- Food Risks.- Food
Safety.- Food Security.- Food Security and International Trade.- Food
Security and Rural Education.- Food Security in Systemic Context.- Food
Standards.- Food Waste.- Food Waste and Consumer Ethics.- Food Worlds, Film,
and Gender.- Food, Agriculture, and Trade Organizations.- Food, Class
Identity, and Gender.- Foods Purposes.- Food-Body Relationship.- Foucault
and Food.- Free Trade and Protectionism in Food and Agriculture.- Functional
Foods.- Functional Foods as Commodities.- Functional Foods, Marketing of.-
Gender and Dieting.- Gender Inequality and Food Security.- Gender Norms and
Food Behavior.- Gender, Obesity, and Stigmatization.- Geographic
Indications.- Geographical Indications, Food, and Culture.- Gluttony.- GM
Food, Nutrition, Safety, and Health.- GMO Food Labeling.- Grocery Store
Design.- Gustatory Pleasure and Food.- Hazon.- Herbicide-Resistant Crops.-
Hinduism and Food.- Home Gardening.- Homesteading.- Horticultural Therapy.-
Hospitality and Food.- Human Ecology and Food.- Human Rights and Food.-
Humane Slaughter Association.- Hunting.- Hybridity in Agriculture.- In Vitro
Meat.- Industrial Food Animal Production Ethics.- Industrialized Slaughter
and Animal Welfare.- Infant Feeding.- Informed Food Choice.- Institute
Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences (TTN), Munich.- Institutional Food
Service.- Intellectual Property and Food.- Intellectual Property Rights and
Trade in the Food and Agricultural Sectors.- International Food Quality
Standards.- Islam and Food.- Islam and Food and Agricultural Ethics.- Jainism
and Food.- Jeffersons Moral Agrarianism.- Judaism and Food.- Kristeva and
Food.- Land Acquisitions for Food and Fuel.- Law and Regulatory Mechanisms
for Food and Agriculture Research.- Literature, Food, and Gender.- Local and
Regional Food Systems.- Local Food Procurement.- Marketing, Food Policy,
Diet, and Health.- Meat: Ethical Considerations.- Medicalization of Eating
and Feeding.- Metaphysics of Natural Food.- Molecular Gastronomy.- Montaigne
and Food.- Multifunctional Agriculture.- Multifunctionality of Agriculture
and International Trade.- Multilateral Trade Organizations, Food, and
Agriculture.- NAFTA and the Food and Agricultural Industries.- Nanotechnology
in Agriculture.- National Courts and the Right to Food.- Natural Food.-
Nietzsche and Food.- Obesity and Consumer Choice.- Obesity and
Responsibility.- Occupational Risks in Agriculture.- Oxford Centre for Animal
Ethics.- Permaculture.- Pest Control.- Peter Singer and Food.- Plant-Based
Diets and Scientific Value Judgments.- Plato and Food.- Political Agronomy.-
Political Consumerism: Consumer Choice, Information, and Labeling.-
Population Growth.- Pork Production: Ethical Issues.- Poverty and Basic
Needs.- Pregnancy and Food.- Private Food Governance.- Provision of
Agricultural Ecosystem Services.- Public Institutional Foodservice.-
Punishment and Food.- Race, Racial Identity, and Eating.- Recipes.- Resource
Conflict, Food, and Agriculture.- Responsible Innovation in the Food Sector.-
Restaurant Reviewing.- Restaurant Workers.- Right to Food in International
Law.- Rousseau and Food.- Saving Seeds.- School Lunch and Gender.- Seed
Banking, Seed Saving, and Cultivating Local Varieties.- Slash-and-Burn
Agriculture.- Slow Food.- Sub-Saharan African Agriculture.- Substantial
Equivalence.- Sustainability and Animal Agriculture.- Sustainability of Food
Production and Consumption.- Sustainable Consumption and Gender.- Synthetic
Biology and Biofuels.- Synthetic Meat.- Systemic Ethics to Support Well
being.- Taste, Distaste, and Food.- Technologies used for Animal Breeding,
Ethical Issues.- Telos and Farm Animal Welfare.- The 20032006 WTO GMO
Dispute: Implications for the SPS Agreement.- Trade and Development in the
Food and Agricultural Sectors.- Trade Policies and Animal Welfare.- Trade
Policies and Organic Food.- Transgenic Crops.- Urban Agriculture.-
Vegetarianism.- Vertical Farms in Horticulture.- Vertical Integration and
Concentration in US Agriculture.- Virtue Theory, Food, and Agriculture.- War
and Food.- Waste and Food.- Water, Food, and Agriculture.- WTO Dispute
Settlement and Food and Agricultural Trade.- You Are What You Eat.- Youth
Food Activism.
Paul B. Thompson is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, with partial appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Resource Development Departments. He previously held positions as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Food Animal Productivity and Wellbeing at Purdue University and prior to that positions as Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics, at Texas A&M University. Editorial positions at Springer are a jointly held position of editor-in-chief of the bookseries The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, and membership of the editorial boards of the journals Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
David M. Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He previously held a position at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. He is the currently the Director of the Philosophy of Food Project at the University of North Texas: www.food.unt.edu
