The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century
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The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

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Gregory E. Pence (Contributor) Ronald Bailey (Contributor) Wendell Berry (Contributor) Norman Borlaug (Contributor) M F. K. Fisher (Contributor) Nichols Fox (Contributor) Greenpeace International (Contributor) Garrett Hardin (Contributor) Mae-Wan Ho (Contributor) Marc Lappe (Contributor)  

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Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same . . . but death comes only once . . . and choices about food come many times each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the safety and environmental risks of genetically modified food, issues of global food politics and the food industry, and the relationships among food, evolution, and human history. Will genetically modified food feed the poor or destroy the environment? Is it a threat to our health? Is the assumed healthfulness of organic food a myth or a reality? The answers to these and other questions are engagingly pursued in this substantive collection, the first of its kind to address the broad range of philosophical, sociological, political, scientific, and technological issues surrounding the ethics of food.
Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. Pence has contributed to theNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the author of Classical Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (2000) and Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998).
  • Contributor: Gregory E. Pence
  • Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • ISBN13: 9780742513341
  • Number of Pages: 350
  • Packaged Dimensions: 155x233x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 458
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date: 2001-12-22
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. Pence has contributed to theNew York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the author of Classical Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (2000) and Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998).

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