Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 
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AbstractThis paper describes a pair of dietary practices I labeldefault vegetarianism anddefault veganism. The basic idea is that one adopts a default of adhering to vegetarian and vegan diets, with periodic exceptions. While I do not exhaustively defend either of these dietary practices as morally required, I do suggest that they are more promising than other dietary practices that are normally discussed like strict veganism and vegetarianism. For they may do a better job of striking a balance between normative concerns about contemporary farming practices and competing considerations of life. Additionally, I argue that f...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - April 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Ethical Evaluation Capacity of Turkish Food and Agricultural Engineers and Veterinary Physicians with Regard to Agriculture and Food System
AbstractIn Turkey, the numbers of studies that deal with agriculture and food as a system and process, and that address the issue with an integrated approach are very limited. Besides, there is no empirical study available in the national literature in which agricultural and food system has been analyzed within the framework of applied ethics. The present study aims to investigate the characteristics of food and agricultural engineers and veterinary physicians in terms of their tendency to carry out ethical evaluations when faced with issues falling under the field of agriculture and food ethics, and detect their capacity ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 27, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Wild Animals and Duties of Assistance
AbstractIs there a moral requirement to assist wild animals suffering due to natural causes? According to thelaissez-faire intuition, although we may havespecial duties to assist wild animals, there are nogeneral requirements to care for them. If this view is right, then our positive duties toward wild animals can be only special, grounded in special circumstances. In this article I present thecontribution argument which employs the thought that the receipt of benefits from wild animals is one such kind of special circumstance. If this argument is correct, then the circle of moral agents required to assist some wild animal...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 27, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Case for Welfare Biology
AbstractAnimal welfare science and ecology are both generally concerned with the lives of animals, however they differ in their objectives and scope; the former studies the welfare of animals considered ‘domestic’ and under the domain of humans, while the latter studies wild animals with respect to ecological processes. Each of these approaches addresses certain aspects of the lives of animals living in the world though neither, we argue, tells us important information about the welfare of wild animals. This paper argues for the development of a new scientific discipline ‘welfare biology’ to address these issues an...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 15, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Tying Up Loose Ends. Integrating Consumers ’ Psychology into a Broad Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Circular Sustainable Bioeconomy
AbstractA shift towards a bioeconomy is not sustainable per se. In order to contribute to sustainable development, a bioeconomy must meet certain conditions. These conditions have been discussed with respect to technology and also to the importance of ethical aspects. Consumers ’ behavior has also been acknowledged. However, consumers still have to choose sustainable consumption options, and this choice depends on their psychological makeup, which can be related to two factors: behavioral costs and individual sustainability motivation. Behavioral costs determine how diff icult the consumption of a bio-based product is, r...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 15, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Defensive over Climate Change? Climate Shame as a Method of Moral Cultivation
AbstractThe climate crisis is an enormous challenge for contemporary societies. Yet, public discussions on it often lead to anger, mocking, denial and other defensive behaviours, one prominent example of which is the reception met by the climate advocate Greta Thunberg. The paper approaches this curious phenomenon via shame. It argues that the very idea of anthropogenic climate change invites feelings of human failure and thereby may also entice shame. The notion of “climate shame” is introduced and distinguished from “climate guilt”. Whereas climate guilt prioritises the flourishing of the environment and is focus...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 27, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Vegan with Traces of Animal-Derived Ingredients? Improving the Vegan Society ’s Labelling
AbstractThe Vegan Society (VS) is one of the most influential vegan organisations worldwide. In 1990 VS created a trademark, The Vegan Trademark, which certifies products as being suitable for vegans. While this, without doubt, has been beneficial in many ways, a change in their present labelling practice is in order. This, I argue, is due to inobservance of a simple coherence requirement to treat morally similar cases alike: the fundamental moral reason that is precluding some products from vegan certification is not precluding other products from such certification. I start by presenting the standard definition of vegani...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 25, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Genetically Modified Foods from Islamic Law Perspective
AbstractNowadays, genetically modified foods find application in many sectors from livestock to health and especially in agriculture. From Islamic law perspective, the critical point is to know whether the modern biotechnology is properly used in genetically modified food production and whether these products are suitable for human health and whether all production stages are halal. Another important point is the uncertainty that may arise during the production and whether the precaution can be taken. The Islamic law methodology is of great importance in understanding and resolving the above issues in line with religious v...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 23, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Multi-criteria Evaluation in Strategic Environmental Assessment in the Creation of a Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management Plan for wineries: Case Study: Oplenac Vineyard
AbstractStrategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), as a support to strategic planning, is a starting point in the creation of a sustainable concept of managing waste that is based on the principles of a circular economy. The role of SEA is to guide the planning process towards the goal of securing the best effects in relation to the quality of the living environment and the socio-economic aspects of development. SEA is also an instrument that can be used when making optimal decisions about spatial development, which further contributes to its importance and role in the planning process. The implementation of SEA allows deve...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 23, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Using Breeding Technologies to Improve Farm Animal Welfare: What is the Ethical Relevance of Telos ?
AbstractSome breeding technology applications are claimed to improve animal welfare: this includes potential applications of genomics and genome editing to improve animals ’ resistance to environmental stress, to genetically alter features which in current practice are changed invasively (e.g. by dehorning), or to reduce animals’ capacity for suffering. Such applications challenge how breeding technologies are evaluated, which paradigmatically proceeds from a welf are perspective. Whether animal welfare will indeed improve may be unanswerable until proposed applications have been developed and tested sufficiently and u...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 9, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Who is the African Farmer? The Importance of Actor Representations in the Debate About Biotechnology Crops in Africa
AbstractThe discussion about the impact of agricultural biotechnology on Africa is deeply divided and contains widely diverging claims about the impact of biotechnology on African farmers. Building upon literature on the ‘good farmer’ that highlights that farmers identities are an important factor in explaining the success or failure of agricultural change, we argue that the identity of the farmer is an undervalued yet crucial aspect for understanding the debate about the impact of agricultural biotechnology on African farmers. In this article we therefore investigate what farmers’ identities are implicated in the ar...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - February 9, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Why Wake the Dead? Identity and De-extinction
AbstractI will entertain and reject three arguments which putatively establish that the individuals produced through de-extinction ought to be the same species as the extinct population. Forms of these arguments have appeared previously in restoration ecology. The first is the weakest, the conceptual argument, that de-extinction will not be de-extinction if it does not re-create an extinct species. This is misguided as de-extinction technology is not unified by its aim to re-create extinct species but in its use of the remnants of extinct populations as a resource. The second is the argument from authenticity; the populati...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 20, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Steak for Supper if the Cow Did Not Suffer: Understanding the Mechanisms Behind People ’s Intention to Purchase Animal Welfare-Friendly (AWF) Meat Products
AbstractPeople have become increasingly conscious of the moral implications of their meat product consumption. The view that farm animals deserve moral considerations has generated widespread public attention to those animals ’ welfare. Meat products from ethically raised animals are distinguished from non-welfare products using animal welfare-friendly (AWF) labels, such as the Better Life Trademark in the Netherlands. AWF meat products have become popular in the Netherlands, as evidenced by a substantial growth in pro duct sales. To address the question concerning the factors influencing people’s intention to purchase...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 20, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Radical Hope: Truth, Virtue, and Hope for What Is Left in Extinction Rebellion
AbstractThis paper examines expressed hopelessness among environmental activists in Extinction Rebellion. While activists claim that they have lost all hope for a future without global warming and species extinction, through despair emerges a new hope for saving what can still be saved —a hope for what is left. This radical hope, emerging from despair, may make Extinction Rebellion even more effective. Drawing from personal interviews with 25 Extinction Rebellion activists in the United Kingdom and the published work of other Extinction Rebellion activists, this paper identifies signs of radical hope. While activists hav...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 19, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
My Meat Does Not Have Feathers: Consumers ’ Associations with Pictures of Different Chicken Breeds
AbstractThe use of traditional chicken breeds with a dual purpose (egg and meat production) has become a relevant topic in Germany mainly due to animal welfare concerns and the importance of conserving genetic variability in poultry farming. However, consumers have little knowledge about the different chicken breeds used in the industry; making it challenging to communicate traditional breeds and their advantages to consumers. Hence, this study takes the approach to look at consumers ’ perceptions of different breeds. We analyze consumers’ evaluations of pictures showing four dual-purpose chicken breeds. First, an eye-...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 18, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
