Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF FOOD ETHICS
While the history of philosophy has traditionally given scant attention to food and the ethics of
eating, in the last few decades the subject of food ethics has emerged as a major topic, encom-
passing a wide array of issues, including labor justice, public health, social inequity, animal rights,
and environmental ethics. This Handbook provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the
ethical implications of the need to eat and the role that food plays in social, cultural, and political
life. This text integrates traditional approaches to the subject with cutting edge research in order
to set a new agenda for philosophical discussions of food ethics.
The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics,
problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising
40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 7 parts:
• the phenomenology of food
• gender and food
• food and cultural diversity
• liberty, choice, and food policy
• food and the environment
• farming and eating other animals
• food justice.
Essential reading for students and researchers in food ethics, it is also an invaluable resource for
those in related disciplines such as environmental ethics and bioethics.
Mary C. Rawlinson is professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook
University, USA. She is author of Just Life (Columbia University Press, 2016) and editor of many
volumes. She is also the editor of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
Caleb Ward is an instructor and PhD student in philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA.
He is editor of Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating under Globalization (with Mary
C. Rawlinson, 2015).
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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF
FOOD ETHICS
Edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Caleb Ward
First published 2017
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Title: The Routledge handbook of food ethics / edited by Mary C. Rawlinson
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Mary C. Rawlinson
PART I
The phenomenology of food 5
1 What is food? Networks, not commodities 7
Ileana F. Szymanski
2 Interactions between self, embodied identities, and food:
considering race, class, and gender 16
Lisa Jean Moore and Kayla Del Biondo
3 Metaphoric determinants of food and identity 27
Kendall J. Eskine
4 Food and technology 38
David M. Kaplan
5 The ethics of eating as a human organism 48
Caleb Ward
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Contents
PART II
Gender and food 59
6 Women’s work: ethics, home cooking, and the sexual politics of food 61
Mary C. Rawlinson
7 Meat and the crisis of masculinity 72
Thomas E. Randall
8 Understanding anorexia at the crossroads of phenomenology
and feminism 82
Corine Pelluchon
PART III
Food and cultural diversity 91
9 The challenges of dietary pluralism 93
Emanuela Ceva, Chiara Testino, and Federico Zuolo
10 Food security at risk: a matter of dignity and self-respect 103
Elena Irrera
11 Indigenous peoples, food, and the environment in
northeast India 113
Sandra Albert
PART IV
Liberty, choice, and food policy 125
12 Food labeling and free speech 127
Matteo Bonotti
13 Food ethics in an intergenerational perspective 138
Michele Loi
14 Health labeling 148
Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen
15 The governance of food: institutions and policies 158
Michiel Korthals
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Contents
16 Food at the nexus of bioethics and biopolitics 167
Christopher Mayes
17 Obesity and coercion 178
Clement Loo and Robert A. Skipper, Jr.
18 Ethical consumerism: a defense 188
Sabine Hohl
PART V
Food and the environment 199
19 Hungry because of change: food, vulnerability,
and climate 201
Alison Reiheld
20 Biodiversity and development 211
John Vandermeer
21 Sustainability 219
Paul B. Thompson
22 Food and environmental justice 230
Graeme Sherriff
PART VI
Farming and eating other animals 241
23 The ethics of humane animal agriculture 243
James McWilliams
24 Confinement agriculture from a moral perspective:
The Pew Commission Report 253
Bernard E. Rollin
25 Animal welfare 264
David Fraser
26 Food, welfare, and agriculture: a complex picture 274
Simon Jenkins
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Contents
27 Animal rights and food: beyond Regan,
beyond vegan 284
Josh Milburn
28 Veganism without animal rights 294
Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton
29 Ritual slaughtering vs. animal welfare: a utilitarian
example of (moral) conflict management 305
Francesco Ferraro
30 Seafood ethics: the normative trials of Neptune’s treasure 315
Craig K. Harris
PART VII
Food justice 329
31 Saving a dynamic system: sustainable adaptation
and the Balinese subak 331
Thomas C. Hilde, Matthew R. G. Regan, and Wiwik Dharmiasih
32 Labor and local food: farmworkers on smaller farms 344
Margaret Gray
33 Indigenous food sovereignty, renewal, and US settler
colonialism 354
Kyle Powys Whyte
34 Case studies of food sovereignty initiatives among the Māori of
Aotearoa (New Zealand) 366
Karyn Stein, Miranda Mirosa, Lynette Carter, and Marion Johnson
35 Individual and community identity in food sovereignty:
the possibilities and pitfalls of translating a rural social movement 377
Ian Werkheiser
36 Responsibility for hunger in liberal democracies 388
David Reynolds and Miranda Mirosa
37 Ethics of food waste 400
Miranda Mirosa, David Pearson, and Rory Pearson
38 Food security and ethics 409
Marko Ahteensuu and Helena Siipi
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Contents
39 The new three-legged stool: agroecology, food sovereignty,
and food justice 419
M. Jahi Chappell and Mindi Schneider
40 Participative inequalities and food justice 430
Clement Loo
Index 441
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