Agricultural Ethics An Invitation

Author : Robert L. Zimdahl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030489359

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Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation by Robert L. Zimdahl Pdf

I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to. I hope for an exchange of ideas about agriculture's moral dilemmas. I encourage my readers to engage in a collective conversation about the dilemmas and avoid remaining in what Merton calls "the collective arrogance and despair of his own herd." If those engaged in agriculture continue to ignore and fail to realize our common difficulties they will be addressed and resolved by societal pressure and political action, which may not yield the resolution we favor. The book's goal is not to resolve the moral dilemmas raised. It is to raise them and encourage thought and discussion. It will ask but not answer why nearly all involved in agriculture have not addressed the moral concerns voiced by the general public. The agricultural enterprise is committed to the benefits and future success of the present, very productive, chemical, capital, and energy intensive system, which is, in the minds of many, not sustainable. The internal justification invokes the moral claim that they feed the world's population. The question remains whether or not the prevailing moral justification of feeding the world is adequate given all the issues modern, developed country agriculture faces: pesticides in soil, water, and food, cruelty to animals, Biotech/GMO's, corporate agriculture, pollution by animal factory waste, exploitation of and cruelty to migrant labor.

Author : Mark E. Graham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606088067

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Sustainable Agriculture by Mark E. Graham Pdf

This book . . . is an invitation to all Christians to begin constructing a food ethics; to the academic Christian ethicist, it presents an opportunity to join a discussion on a topic relevant in so many ways to the life of every American; to the Christian for whom the spark of the divine is detectable in the everyday life, it is a chance to begin making ethical sense out of something done every day for the entirety of one's natural life-participating in agriculture. -from the Introduction In Sustainable Agriculture, Mark Graham joins the vibrant, substantive discussion about the moral issues in American agriculture by revealing what is going on in current agricultural practices and analyzing them in light of morality and sustainability. Graham's constructive proposal for change is based on a moral vision that identifies a group of core values around which our agricultural system should be developed, including: a) a consistent, safe food supply; b) vital, sustainable communities; and c) personal and environmental health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251050678

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The Ethics of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification by Anonim Pdf

International commitments were made at the World Food Summits in 1996 and 2002 and in the Millennium Development Goals to cut food hunger levels by half by the year 2015. This objective will require the adoption of sustainable agricultural intensification methods that avoid degradation of the earth's natural resources and take into account the needs and livelihoods of rural populations, particularly in developing countries. This publication explores three approaches to an ethical analysis of agricultural intensification strategies, using arguments based on utilitarian, rights-based and virtue-based models.

Author : Carlos M. Romeo Casabona,Leire Escajedo San Epifanio,Aitziber Emaldi Cirión
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867103

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Global food security: ethical and legal challenges by Carlos M. Romeo Casabona,Leire Escajedo San Epifanio,Aitziber Emaldi Cirión Pdf

Food security will exist when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (as stated in the Rome Declaration in 1996). Given the dimension of the current global food crisis, food security means adopting effective and specific actions at individual, household, national, regional and global levels. Food security invites us to reflect upon ethical principles like human equity, justice between current and future generations, respect for human dignity and sustainable food production. We strive to maintain our basic ethical convictions and engage in societal debates about other important values. While we do this, we may have to change our ways of life and learn to create new priorities in the face of global responsibility. Science and technology are key tools to reach the Millenium Goals, providing both society and decision makers alike with relevant information and new options within an ethical framework. The contributions found in this publication bring together the perspectives of a diverse group of authors. Coming from the academic world, the public sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), they provide the latest views on ‘Global food security: ethical and legal challenges’.

Author : Robert L. Zimdahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1801463158

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Key Issues in Agricultural Ethics by Robert L. Zimdahl Pdf

Agriculture is facing unprecedented scrutiny for its social and environmental impacts. Many of the key choices it must make are fundamentally about ethics. Key issues in agricultural ethics explores key ethical debates surrounding agriculture and agri-food supply chains.These include issues such as animal welfare, use of labour, the effects of new technologies and the overall impact of agriculture on the environment. It considers the ways these ethical dilemmas may be better understood and potentially resolved. Edited by a leading researcher in the field, Key issues in agricultural ethics will be a standard reference for researchers in agriculture and environmental science, government and other private sector agencies responsible for monitoring good agricultural practice, as well as researchers involved in the social sciences with a focus on ethics.

Author : Paul B. Thompson,Kirill O. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319926032

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Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective by Paul B. Thompson,Kirill O. Thompson Pdf

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context. Agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics are wide-ranging and closely linked to environmental ethics, bioethics, virtue ethics, animal welfare, soil conservation, not to mention rural traditions and lifestyles. Six of the chapters cover historical traditions and values in Europe, the US and East Asia. Four of the chapters cover the role of virtue ethics in the analysis of agrarian and environmental ethics, agricultural biotechnology, food ethics, and alternative agriculture, respectively. Finally, two of the chapters cover field efforts of agricultural ethics involving preserving agricultural heritage and building consensus for sustainable farming, respectively. Although the papers are divided into three groups, their contents are interconnected and mutually informative.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402087226

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The Ethics of Intensification by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic increases in world population between 2010 and 2030, and a trend in developing countries toward greater consumption of animal products could multiply the need for prod- tion of basic grains even further. Although global food production in 2000 was estimated to be adequate for the existing population, hunger and malnutrition are persistent problems that have led decision makers to recognize that increasing food production in specific regions may be the most effective way to address food se- rity for impoverished peoples. At the same time, there will need to be policy adju- ments that improve poor people’s access to current food supplies without simultaneously undercutting the ability of local producers to obtain needed cash income. What is more, the uncertain effects of global climate change on agricultural ecosystems complicate planning for this process, while poorly understood processes of globa- zation create additional unknowns from the side of social systems. In short, despite surpluses in many parts of the developed world, finding ways to increase food p- duction on both selected regional and a total global basis remains a priority for many farmers, policy makers and agricultural researchers.

Author : Cristian Timmermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030561932

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Social Justice and Agricultural Innovation by Cristian Timmermann Pdf

Employing a social justice framework, this book examines the effects of innovation incentives and policies in agriculture. It addresses access to the objects of innovation, the direction of science and the type of innovations that are available, opportunities to participate in research and development, as well as effects on future generations. The book examines the potential value of preventive and reconciliatory measures, drawing on concepts from procedural and restorative justice. As such it offers a comprehensive analysis of the main social justice dimensions affected by agricultural innovation. It gives academics and policy analysts an extensive overview of the deep impact of innovation on society and the environment, and the expectations the general public has from the scientific community.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429714955

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Beyond The Large Farm by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

This book examines the rationale for emphasizing productivity as the dominant goal of agricultural research and challenges in the form of alternative goals that scientists might seek in performing agricultural research. It presents bibliographic essays that review the criticisms of research.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 041508623X

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The Spirit of the Soil by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

He compares four 'world views' - productionism, stewardship, economics, and holism - which frame these issues and the potential response to them according to different philosophical priorities. All four are found to have their inadequacies.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0813828066

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Agricultural Ethics by Paul Thompson Pdf

Presents a collection of essays written over a period of 15 years by agricultural ethicist Paul B. Thompson. The essays address the practical application of ethics to agriculture in a world faced with issues of increased yield, threatened environment, and the disappearance of the family farm.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 052143971X

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Practical Ethics by Peter Singer Pdf

First published in 1979.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030612146

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Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson’s analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective in 1997 and 2007, were the first comprehensive philosophical studies of genetic engineering applied to food systems. The book is structured with chapter length treatments of risk in four categories: food safety, to animals, to the environment and socio-economic risks. These chapters are preceded by two chapters providing orientation to the uses of gene technology in food and agriculture, and to the goals, methods and background assumptions of technological ethics. There is also a chapter covering all four types of risk as applied to the first US technology, recombinant bovine somatotropin. The last four chapters take up 1) intellectual property debates, 2) religious, metaphysical and “intrinsic” objections to biotechnology, 3) issues in risk and trust and 4) a review of ethical issues in synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives, the three key technologies that have emerged since the book was last revised.

Author : Bob Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351052016

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Animal Ethics by Bob Fischer Pdf

There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren’t many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer’s Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically informed and nuanced way. It also covers a range of relatively neglected issues in animal ethics, such as the possibility of insect sentience and the ethics of dealing with pests. Finally, the book doesn’t assess every current practice using standard ethical theories, but tries to evaluate some of them using the moral frameworks endorsed by those involved. So, for instance, there is a chapter on the way that animal care and use committees try to justify some of the educational uses of animals, and the chapter on zoos considers the way that international zoological societies justify compromising animal welfare. The book wraps up with a discussion of the future of animal ethics. Each chapter opens with a helpful initial overview of the chapter and ends with a list of suggested readings to help students go further on their own. Key Features Covers animal ethics from an empirically informed perspective, bringing philosophy into conversation with key issues in animal science, conservation biology, economics, ethology, and legal studies, among other fields Provides ample coverage of the most salient current topics, including, for example: Debates about which animals are sentient The suffering of wild animals Research ethics The boundaries of activism Avoids suggesting that animal ethics is simply the practice of applying the right general theory to a problem, instead allowing readers to first work out the specific costs and benefits of making ethical decisions Impresses upon the reader the need for her to work out for herself the best way forward with difficult ethical issues, suggesting that progress can indeed be made Includes summaries and recommended readings at the end of each chapter

Author : Charles V. Blatz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015021643526

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Ethics and Agriculture by Charles V. Blatz Pdf