From field to fork : food ethics for everyone /

Tapping into surging interest in the impacts of our food choices on ourselves and the wider world, Paul B. Thompson provides readers with a guided tour of the landscape of food ethics, applying more than thirty years of experience working with farmers, agricultural researchers, and food system activ...

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Main Author: Thompson, Paul B., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Tapping into surging interest in the impacts of our food choices on ourselves and the wider world, Paul B. Thompson provides readers with a guided tour of the landscape of food ethics, applying more than thirty years of experience working with farmers, agricultural researchers, and food system activists. Thompson follows the ethics of diet and health from the ancient world to our current obesity crisis and goes on to examine diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, social injustice in food systems, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology, and GMOs from a philosophical standpoint.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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