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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: A Little Throat-Clearing before DinnerChapter 2: Food Ethics Arrives (or Does It?)Chapter 3: The Ethics of Food Aid and Famine ReliefChapter 4: Local Food: The Moral Case ReconsideredChapter 5: The Ethics of Food LabelsChapter 6: Pollution as a Moral ProblemChapter 7: Sustainable Food SystemsChapter 8: Agrarian PragmatismChapter 9: Food Ethics and the Philosophy of RaceBibliographyIndex
