Food, Animals, and the Environment: An Ethical Approach examines
some of the main impacts that agriculture has on humans, nonhumans,
and the environment, as well as some of the main questions that
these impacts raise for the ethics of food production, consumption,
and activism. Agriculture is having a lasting effect on this
planet. Some forms of agriculture are especially harmful. For
example, industrial animal agriculture kills 100+ billion animals
per year; consumes vast amounts of land, water, and energy; and
produces vast amounts of waste, pollution, and greenhouse gas
emissions. Other forms, such as local, organic, and plant-based
food, have many benefits, but they also have many costs, especially
at scale. These impacts raise difficult ethical questions. What do
we owe animals, plants, species, and ecosystems? What do we owe
people in other nations and future generations? What are the ethics
of risk, uncertainty, and collective harm? What is the meaning and
value of natural food in a world reshaped by human activity? What
are the ethics of supporting harmful industries when less harmful
alternatives are available? What are the ethics of resisting
harmful industries through activism, advocacy, and philanthropy?
The discussion ranges over cutting-edge topics such as effective
altruism, abolition and regulation, revolution and reform,
individual and structural change, single-issue and multi-issue
activism, and legal and illegal activism. This unique and
accessible text is ideal for teachers, students, and anyone else
interested in serious examination of one of the most complex and
important moral problems of our time.
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