Paul B. Thompson has been a leading scholar in food ethics for over thirty years. He was present at the founding of three professional societies for food ethics and has served in an advisory capacity for the U.S. National Research Council, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Genome Canada, and Wageningen University and Research Institute in the Netherlands , among others. He edited the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Springer) and writes a blog for Thornapple Community Supported Agriculture in Lansing MI.
* Introduction, with a Rough Guide to Ethics
* Chapter 1: You Are NOT What You Eat
* Chapter 2: Food Ethics and Social Injustice
* Chapter 3: The Ethics of Diet and Obesity
* Chapter 4: The Fundamental Problem of Food Ethics
* Chapter 5: Livestock Welfare and the Ethics of Producing Meat
* Chapter 6: The Allure of the Local: Food Systems and Environmental
Impact
* Chapter 7: Green Revolution Food Technology and Its Discontents
* Chapter 8: Once More, This Time with Feeling: Ethics, Risk and the
Future of Food
* Bibliography
