Description |
1 online resource (312 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
California Studies in Food and Culture ; v. 39
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California studies in food and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Real men have manners / Roger Scruton -- Down-home global cooking: a third option between cosmopolitanism and localism / Lisa Heldke -- Hunger is the best sauce: the aesthetics of food / Kevin W. Sweeney -- Smells, tastes, and everyday aesthetics / Emily Brady -- Ethical gourmandism / Carolyn Korsmeyer -- Two evils in food country: hunger and lack of representation / Michiel Korthals -- Ethics and genetically modified food / Gary Comstock -- The ethics of food safety in the twenty-first century: who keeps the public good? -- The myth of happy meat / Richard P. Haynes -- Animal welfare, happy meat, and veganism as the moral baseline / Gary L. Francione -- Animal ethics and food production in the twenty-first century / David Fraser -- Nature politics and the philosophy of agriculture / Paul B. Thompson -- The ethics and sustainability of aquaculture / Matthias Kaiser -- Scenarios for food security / David Castle, Keith Culver, and William Hannah -- Nutritionism and functional foods / Gyorgy Scrinis -- In vitro meat: what are the moral issues? / Stellan Welin, Julie Gold, and Johanna Berlin. |
Summary |
This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan's erudite and informative introduction grounds the discussion, showing how philosophers since Plato have taken up questions about food, diet, agriculture, and animals. However, until recently, few have considered food a standard subject for serious philosophical debate. Each of the essays in this book brings in. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Food.
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Food. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Kaplan, David M.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Philosophy of food. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011032946 |
ISBN |
9780520951976 (electronic book) |
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0520951972 (electronic book) |
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9780520269330 |
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0520269330 |
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0520269349 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780520269347 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780520269347 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0520269330 |
Standard No. |
9786613369765 |
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