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Ethical Approach to Fluoridation in Drinking Water Systems of UK and Turkey
This study has used an independent and ethical approach taking into account the cautious but assertive dentists ’ comments on the addition of fluoride for years. This research focuses on a comparative analysis of Britain, an advanced economy, and Turkey, a developing country, supported with tangential reference to worldwide practice in general. Drawing on ongoing studies, the research analyses empirical evi dence and arguments to conduct an assessment of Turkey’s practices. The ethical argument about fluoridation focuses on the question of adequate evidence for its health benefits and the autonomy of the consumer. As t...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 27, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

How Good? Ethical Criteria for a ‘Good Life’ for Farm Animals
AbstractThe Farm Animal Welfare Council ’s concept of a Good Life gives an idea of an animal’s quality of life that is over and above that of a mere life worth living. The concept needs explanation and clarification, in order to be meaningful, particularly for consumers who purchase farm animal produce. The concept could allow assuran ce schemes to apply the label to assessments of both the potential of each method of production, conceptualised in ways expected to enhance consumers’ engagement such as ‘naturalness’ and ‘freedom’; and the concept of a life worth living as a safeguard threshold below which no a...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 26, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Environmental Ethics in Poland
AbstractIn the 1960s, western societies discovered that unlimited technological progress has a very high price that the environment pays. This was also the beginning of the discussions on the role of ethics in the protection of the environment and the moral aspects of nature exploitation. Even though the state of nature was not better in Poland, it took Polish philosophers a few decades to recognize the moral problem and to address it. The prevailing communistic propaganda of progress had blurred the perception of Polish people and they are unable to notice the environmental problem. Thus, only in the 1990s, after the fall...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 22, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Assessing the Influence of Social Responsibility on Reputation: An Empirical Case-Study in Agricultural Cooperatives in Spain
AbstractThe attention to ethics has gradually become a concurrent topic of modern companies ’ management. In the last years Social Responsibility has become a key issue in the strategic agenda of competitive agriculture cooperatives. However, reputation management has not been a visible strength in the cooperative enterprises. First of all, this work theoretically analyzes the relationsh ip between Social Responsibility and reputation in cooperatives. Later, from a practical point of view, we carry on an empirical analysis focused on the olive oil cooperatives in the south of Spain, in the province of Jaén. With respect...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 17, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Environmental Ethics and Science: Resilience as a Moral Boundary
AbstractScience has always been tightly associated with environmental ethics in a way traditional ethics has not. However, despite this proximity, science has had a merely informational role, where it must inform ethics but not intervene in ethical judgment. Science is seen as an amoral enterprise, requiring an ethics rather than recommending one. In this paper I try to go against this common view. First, I give a critique of the naturalistic fallacy following the lines of Frankena. Then I go on to describe the two possible roles science can have in ethical though, and in environmental ethics in particular. As it turns out...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 16, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research