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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Reconciling the Epistemological, Ethical, Political, and Practical Challenges
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to provide further clarity to the technical and policy difficulties associated with mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by identifying and distilling the core tensions which propagate and animate them. We argue that these complexities exist across four critical dimensions: the epistemological, the ethical, the political, and the practical. Adequately confronting the challenge of agricultural emissions will require improved transparency in emissions measurement, increased science communication, enhanced public participatory mechanisms, and the integration of ethical deli...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - June 1, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues
AbstractGary Francione is an abolitionist: he maintains that we ought to abolish the institutions and practices that support the exploitation of animals. He also believes that veganism is the “moral baseline”—that is, he thinks it’s morally required of nearly everyone in the developed world, and many beyond it. Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues claims that abolitionism is guilty of racism, albeit “racism without racists.” I contend that his arguments for this conclusion aren’t succes sful. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - June 1, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Nilanjan Ghosh, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Amita Shah and Manoj Panda: Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages
(Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - June 1, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Laudato Si ’, Technologies of Power and Environmental Injustice: Toward an Eco-Politics Guided by Contemplation
AbstractThis paper explores how Pope Francis ’ critique of “the technocratic paradigm” in Laudato Si’ can contribute to an environmental ethics governed by asymmetries of power and agency. The technocratic paradigm is here theorized as linked to forms of anthropocentrism that together engender a dangerous alliance between the powers of technology and technologies of power. The meaning and import of this view become clearer when the background of these ideas gets excavated in the works of Romano Guardini. The contemporary manifestation of Guardini’s warnings appears in the form of myriad environmental injustices w...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - May 30, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Nilanjan Ghosh, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Amita Shah and Manoj Panda: Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages
(Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - May 17, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Values in Climate Ethics
AbstractThe aim of the article is to give an outline of a value theory suitable for climate ethics, based on a perfectionist account on the convergence between prudential values and moral responsibility. I claim that such a convergence may generate a system of values that specify norms and obligations and attribute responsibility towards future generations, and thereby provides us with a measure of acceptable political action. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - May 16, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Moral Considerability and the Argument from Relevance
AbstractThe argument from relevance expresses an intuition that, although shared by many applied ethicists, has not been analyzed and systematized in the form of a clear argument thus far. This paper does this by introducing the concept of value relevance, which has been used before in economy but not in the philosophical literature. The paper explains how value relevance is different from moral relevance, and distinguishes between direct and indirect ways in which the latter can depend on the former. These clarifications allow the argument to explain in detail how we can make two claims. The first one is that being a reci...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - April 6, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Strong Patient Advocacy and the Fundamental Ethical Role of Veterinarians
AbstractThis essay examines the fundamental role of veterinarians in companion animal practice by developing the idea of veterinarians as strong advocates for their nonhuman animal patients. While the practitioner-patient relationship has been explored extensively in medical ethics, the relation between practitioner and animal patient has received relatively less attention in the expanding but still young field of veterinary ethics. Over recent decades, social and professional ethical perspectives on human-animal relationships have undergone major change. Today, the essential role of veterinarians is not entirely clear. Fu...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 24, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Reconciling the Epistemological, Ethical, Political, and Practical Challenges
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to provide further clarity to the technical and policy difficulties associated with mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by identifying and distilling the core tensions which propagate and animate them. We argue that these complexities exist across four critical dimensions: the epistemological, the ethical, the political, and the practical. Adequately confronting the challenge of agricultural emissions will require improved transparency in emissions measurement, increased science communication, enhanced public participatory mechanisms, and the integration of ethical deli...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 21, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Exploring Influences of Different Communication Approaches on Consumer Target Groups for Ethically Produced Beef
The objective of this paper is to unveil the effectiveness of different communication treatments in regard to changing purchase behavior of different consumer groups. Different communication material for beef produced according to consumer expectations was compiled and applied in a consumer survey —incorporating a choice experiment and a questionnaire—with 676 respondents in three cities of Germany. A Latent Class Mixed Logit Model was basis to identify different consumer segments and their response to the different communication treatments. The effects of different communication treatmen ts unveil the importance to ad...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 19, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Can Species Have Capabilities, and What if They Can?
AbstractIn this article, I apply the environmental or expanded capabilities approach to species and examine whether species as wholes can have capabilities and what are the implications if they can. The examination provides support for the claim that species as evolutionary groups can possess capabilities. They have integrity, which refers to the functionings that enable the self-making and development (evolvement) of species, and it is conceptually possible to identify capabilities that essentially enable or contribute to species integrity. One central capability for species can be identified from conservation literature:...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Is Abolitionism Guilty of Racism? A Reply to Cordeiro-Rodrigues
AbstractGary Francione is an abolitionist: he maintains that we ought to abolish the institutions and practices that support the exploitation of animals. He also believes that veganism is the “moral baseline”—that is, he thinks it’s morally required of nearly everyone in the developed world, and many beyond it. Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues claims that abolitionism is guilty of racism, albeit “racism without racists.” I contend that his arguments for this conclusion aren’t succes sful. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Genetically Modifying Livestock for Improved Welfare: A Path Forward
AbstractIn recent years, humans ’ ability to selectively modify genes has increased dramatically as a result of the development of new, more efficient, and easier genetic modification technology. In this paper, we argue in favor of using this technology to improve the welfare of agricultural animals. We first argue that using an imals genetically modified for improved welfare is preferable to the current status quo. Nevertheless, the strongest argument against pursuing gene editing for welfare is that there are alternative approaches to addressing some of the challenges of modern agriculture that may offer ethical advant...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 3, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Death-Free Dairy? The Ethics of Clean Milk
AbstractThe possibility of “clean milk”—dairy produced without the need for cows—has been championed by several charities, companies, and individuals. One can ask how those critical of the contemporary dairy industry, including especially vegans and others sympathetic to animal rights, should respond to this prospect. In this paper, I explore three kinds of challenges that such people may have to clean milk: first, that producing clean milk fails to respect animals; second, that humans should not consume dairy products; and third, that the creation of clean milk would affirm human superiority over cows. None of the...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 19, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research