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Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century Hardback - 2001

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by Gregory E. Pence (Editor); Contribution by Ronald Bailey; Contribution by Wendell Berry

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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.

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Title Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century
Author Gregory E. Pence (Editor); Contribution by Ronald Bailey; Contribution by Wendell Berry
Binding Hardback
Pages 350
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date 2001-12-29
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
ISBN 9780742513334 / 0742513335
Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 9.24 x 6.18 x 0.88 in (23.47 x 15.70 x 2.24 cm)
Category Science
Library of Congress subjects Genetically modified foods - Moral and, Nutrition policy - Moral and ethical aspects
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001048271
Dewey Decimal Code 363.192

About the author

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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