| Description |
550 pages : some illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Theoretical, conceptual and foundational issues: concepts and approaches -- Theoretical, conceptual and foundational issues: assessment and models -- Theoretical, conceptual and foundational issues: bringing ethics into practice -- Diversity, resilience, global trade -- Sustainability and animal welfare: animal welfare and basic value -- Sustainability and animal welfare: different practices -- Sustainability and animal welfare:implementation and legislation -- Sustainability and animal welfare: workshop 'science and public expectations' -- Ethics of organic farming -- Sustainable disease control -- Sustainable food production and consumption -- GMO: gm plants -- GMO: transgenic animals -- Nature conservation and ethics -- Other contributions |
| Summary |
Sustainability has become an issue widely debated in many countries. Given the central role of food supply and the emotional relationship that modern mankind still has to its food, sustainability is seen as a value which has to be maintained throughout food supply chains. The complexity of modern food systems invokes a variety of ethical implications which emerge from contrasts between ideals, perceptions and the conditions of technical processes within food systems, and the concerns connected to this. This book covers a broad range of aspects within the general issue of sustainable food production and ethics. Linking different academic disciplines, topics range from reflections about the roots of sustainability and the development of concepts and approaches to globalisation and resilience of food systems as well as specific ethical aspects of organic farming and animal welfare. Modern technologies which are intensely advocated by certain stakeholder groups and their societal challenges are addressed, as are many other specific cases of food production and processing, consumer perception and marketing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food supply -- Congresses.
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Food -- Production -- Congresses
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Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses.
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Sustainable agriculture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
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Agriculture -- ethics.
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Animal Welfare -- ethics.
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Crops, Agricultural.
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Food Safety.
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Food Supply -- ethics.
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Food Technology -- ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Zollitsch, Werner.
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| ISBN |
908686046X (paperback) |
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9789086860463 (paperback) |
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