Full Description
Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analysis of contemporary ethical issues connected with food. Thompson reinterprets Peter Singer's work on famine relief in light of the history of funding development assistance through food aid, defends locavore diets against philosophical critics, and analyzes the ethics of food labelling in light of J.S. Mill's On Liberty. Further exploring today's key ethical questions about food, Thompson compares anthropological and toxicological approaches to pollution and defends a revised notion of agricultural sustainability. These topics provide an entry point for a novel approach in practical ethics that blends pragmatist philosophy of language, historical interpretation of agrarian thought, and recent philosophical writings on race and structural racism.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Little Throat-Clearing before Dinner
Chapter 2: Food Ethics Arrives (or Does It?)
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Food Aid and Famine Relief
Chapter 4: Local Food: The Moral Case Reconsidered
Chapter 5: The Ethics of Food Labels
Chapter 6: Pollution as a Moral Problem
Chapter 7: Sustainable Food Systems
Chapter 8: Agrarian Pragmatism
Chapter 9: Food Ethics and the Philosophy of Race
Bibliography
Index
