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Review of Harris, T., & amp; Gibbs, T. (2023).Food in a Just World: Compassionate Eating in a Time of Climate Change. John Wiley & amp; Sons.
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Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - April 22, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Community-Centred Environmental Discourse: Redefining Water Management in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia
AbstractThe Australian government's response to the Millennium Drought (1997 –2010) has been met with praise and contestation. While proponents saw the response as timely and crucial, critics claimed it was characterized by government overreach and mismanagement. Five months of field research in farm communities in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) identified two dominant dis courses: administrative rationalism and a local community-based discourse I have termed community-centrism. Administrative rationalism reflects the value of scientific inquiry in service to the state and is the dominant research-based problem-solving m...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - April 18, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Ambivalence in Environmental Care: Marine Care Ethics and More-Than-Human Relations in the Conservation of Seagrass Posidonia oceanica
This article takes this U-turn in policy and public perception as a study case to think of knowledge-making practices and restoration initiatives as a form of environmental care. The relational, situated and affective character of care ethics helps to understand the human and ecological labour embedded in knowledge-making and restoration practices and its inevitable engagement with the Balearic tourism industry. Drawing on those engagements, I reflect on environmental care practices of knowledge-making and restoration, arguing that they emerge ambivalently: they challenge management logics based on economic rationales whil...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

CLIMAVORE: Divesting from Fish Farms Towards the Tidal Commons
AbstractIn Scotland, residents have fought open-net salmon farms and their toll on human and nonhuman bodies for decades. This paper recollects seven years of work in Skye and Raasay, two  islands off the northwest coast of the country, developing strategies to divest away from salmon aquaculture. Addressing the contemporary wave of underwater clearances created by UK’s top food export industry, it unpacks the implementation of a transition into alternative horizons by embracing t he legacies of toxicity inherited from salmon extractivist industries. CLIMAVORE, a framework developed as a research-led artistic practice b...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 25, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Better to be a Pig Dissatisfied than a Plant Satisfied
AbstractIn the last two decades, there has been a blossoming literature aiming to counter the neglect of plant capacities. In their recent paper, Miguel Segundo-Ortin and Paco Calvo begin by providing an overview of the literature to then question the mistaken assumptions that led to plants being immediately rejected as candidates for sentience. However, it appears that many responses to their arguments are based on the implicit conviction that because animals have far more sophisticated cognition and agency than plants, and that plants should not have the same moral status as animals, plants should not have any moral stat...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 7, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Ethical Challenges in Mariculture: Adopting a Feminist Blue Humanities Approach
This article examines feminist blue humanities and the contributions it may bring to understanding contemporary and future ethical challenges posed by mariculture and its intensification, especially the cultivation of low-trophic organ isms. By offering an overview of feminist blue humanities, this article explores some of its particularities by drawing out three major ethical concerns facing contemporary mariculture, specifically material reconfigurations, radical alteration of the lives of low-trophic species through industriali zation and increases in maricultural waste products. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 10, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Shallow vs. Deep Geoethics: Moving Beyond Anthropocentric Views
AbstractAt its inception, geoethics was envisioned as a type of professional ethics concerned with the moral implications of geoscientific research, applications, and practices. More recently, however, some scholars have proposed versions of geoethics as public and global ethics. To better understand these developments, this article considers the relationship between geoethics and environmental ethics by exploring different aspects of the human-nature relation (i.e., the moral status and role of humans in relation to the non-human world). We start by noting that the main strains of geoethical thought elaborated so far repr...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - January 4, 2024 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Plantationocene: A Framework For Understanding the Links Between Ecological Destruction and Social Inequalities
AbstractThe Anthropocene, as one of the core concepts currently used to understand and reflect on the relationships among humans, species, and planet, has received widespread attention and discussion in the global academic community. As one of the important alternative concepts to the Anthropocene, the term Plantationocene was first proposed by Haraway et al. in October 2014. Compared to the former, it reveals the fundamental characteristics of the modern era, and continues to enrich its theoretical connotations amidst rapid shifts in social concepts and practices. Tracing and sorting out the genealogy of this concept over...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - December 7, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Societal Acceptability of Insect-Based Livestock Feed: A Qualitative Study from Europe
AbstractAgainst the background of high demand for protein-rich feed in the EU and the environmental degradation associated with intensive livestock farming, insect-based feed is discussed as a potential sustainable alternative to conventional feed. However, the establishment of such an innovation depends not only upon technical and economic feasibility, but also on social factors impacting acceptability. The aim of this paper was to determine the acceptability of different social actor groups towards the use of insects as livestock feed, and to gain insights into value-based arguments leading to positive or negative attitu...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 4, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

A Kantian Approach to the Moral Considerability of Non-human Nature
AbstractA Kantian approach can establish that non-human natural entities are morally considerable and that humans have duties to them. This is surprising, because most environmental ethicists have either rejected or overlooked Kant when it comes to this issue. Inspired by an argument of Christine Korsgaard, I claim that both humans and non-humans have a natural good, which is whatever allows an entity to function well according to the kind of entity it is. I argue that humans are required to confer normative value on the natural good of all entities that have a natural good. This is so because, as a matter of fact, humans ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 30, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Right to Food
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Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Politically Branding India ’s “First Fully Organic State”: Re-Signification of Traditional Practices and Markets in Organic Agriculture
AbstractIn 2016, summarily outlawing all chemical inputs, the Indian state of Sikkim transitioned to completely organic agriculture. Despite “organic discontents” of farmers and citizens about autocratic implementation, lowered yields, and unsatisfactory prices, “Sikkim Organic” enjoys global accolades and local compliance. The paradox of alternative agriculture in the Global South is that it is often promoted by the same state-s cience-capital hegemonic formation that pushed the conventional paradigm. How has the Sikkimese state negotiated this paradox and continued to claim success, when other radical state-led o...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - September 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Climate Injustice in a More-Than-Human World
AbstractThe climate crisis has implications for the idea of justice. The paper explores this idea to inquire whether climate change wrongs animals and, if it does, how these wrongs are constitutive of an injustice. The first question is answered in the positive to then propose an answer to the second question through an account of climate injustice articulated as a problem of distribution of ecological space. On that basis, the general conclusion of the paper is that at least some harms suffered by animals are constitutive of climate distributive injustices. They are cases of wrongful appropriation of ecological space, tha...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - September 4, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Strategies for Increasing Participation of Diverse Consumers in a Community Seafood Program
AbstractAlternative food networks, such as farmers ’ markets and community-supported agricultural and fishery programs, often struggle to reach beyond a consumer base that is predominantly white and affluent. This case study explores seven inclusion strategies deployed by a community-supported fishery program (Fishadelphia, in Philadelphia, PA, US A) including discounting prices, accepting payment in multiple forms and schedules, offering a range of product types, communicating and recruiting through a variety of media (especially in person), and choosing local institutions and people of color (POC) as pickup location ho...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - September 1, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

An assessment of 'Inclusive' Business Models: Vehicles for Development, or Neo-Colonial Practices?
AbstractIn a period of decreasing aid budgets and increasing private sector engagement in the Global South,Inclusive Business-referring to a business model that integrates marginalized people in the company ’s value chain as suppliers, distributors, retailers, or customers to the mutual benefit of both the company and the community has become a preferred development strategy. However so far the impacts of inclusive business models on the livelihoods of these ‘marginalized people’ have remained el usive. With this paper I aim to contribute to a better understanding of the impacts perceived by the communities. Starting...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - July 20, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research