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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

Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
AbstractCognitive biases play an important role in creating and perpetuating problems that lead to foodborne illness outbreaks. By using insights from behavioral ethics, we argue that sometimes people engage in unethical behavior that increases the likelihood of foodborne illness outbreaks without necessarily intending to or being consciously aware of it. We demonstrate these insights in an analysis of the 2011 Listeriosis outbreak in the U.S. from the consumption of contaminated cantaloupes. We then provide policy implications that can improve our understanding of other kinds of disease outbreaks and epidemics. (Source: J...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 16, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Foresighting for Responsible Innovation Using a Delphi Approach: A Case Study of Virtual Fencing Innovation in Cattle Farming
AbstractThe use of virtual fencing (VF) in pasture-grazed farm systems is currently close to commercial reality but there are no studies applying the principles of responsible research and innovation, such as foresighting, to this technology. This paper reports results of a study aimed at foresighting potential implications associated with virtual fencing of cattle. A Delphi method was used to survey the opinions of farming practitioners and researchers, using pasture-grazed cattle farming in New Zealand as a case study. The key benefits were identified as environmental protection, improved feed allocation, access to previ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - November 16, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

I Would like to, but I can ’t. An Online Survey on the Moral Challenges of German Farm Veterinarians
AbstractThe job of veterinarians is often described as morally challenging. This online survey (n  = 123) investigated how farm veterinarians in Germany perceive these challenges. Most participants described their job in accordance with the literature: as a profession that regularly has to deal with morally difficult decisions. The majority assumed that their moral challenges were greater th an the ones of small animal practitioners. The results indicate that the typical moral challenges are (a) situations in which the farm veterinarians are convinced to know what is morally right, however, specific external obstacles ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 29, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Beliefs and Actions Towards an Environmental Ethical Life: The Christianity-Environment Nexus Reflected in a Cross-National Analysis
AbstractThe present study seeks to introduce the European Christian community to the debate on environmental degradation while displaying its important role and theological perspectives in the resolution of the environmental crisis. The fundamental question authors have asked here is if Christianity supports pro-environmental attitudes compared to other religions, in a context where religion, in general, represents the ethical foundation of our civilization and, thus, an important behavior guide. The discussion becomes all the more interesting as many voices have identified the Christian theological tradition as ecological...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 28, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A Viewpoint
AbstractMany public debates about the societal significance and impact of agriculture are usefully framed by Paul Thompson ’s distinction between the “agrarian” and the “industrial vision.” The key argument of the present paper is that the ongoing debate between these visions goes beyond academic philosophy and has direct effects on the political economy of agriculture by influencing the scope of rent-seeking activities that are undertaken primarily in the name of the agrarian vision. The existence of rent-seeking activities is shown to reflect the fact that the agrarian vision is not universally supported, which...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - September 10, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Temperance and Eating Meat
AbstractThis paper provides an account of the Aristotelian virtue of temperance in regards to food, an account that revolves around the idea of enjoying the right objects and not enjoying the wrong ones. In doing so, the paper distinguishes between two meanings of “taking (or not taking) pleasure in something,” one that refers to theidea of the activity and one to theexperience of the activity. The paper then connects this distinction to the temperate person ’s attitude towards enjoying the right things and to hitting the mean by enjoying the right object, at the right time, and so on. Throughout, the paper uses eati...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - July 30, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

How Might a Stoic Eat in Accordance with Nature and “Environmental Facts”?
AbstractThis paper explores how to deliberate about food choices from a Stoic perspective informed by the value of environmental sustainability. This perspective is reconstructed from both ancient and contemporary sources of Stoic philosophy. An account of what the Stoic goal of “living in agreement with Nature” would amount to in dietary practice is presented. Given ecological facts about food production, an argument is made that Stoic virtue made manifest as wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance compel Stoic practitioners to select locally sourced, low resource inp ut, plant-based foods whenever circumstances allo...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - July 13, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Welfare of Foxes and Earthdogs Used in Den Trials in Countries of the Visegrad Group
AbstractThe purpose of den trials is to assess innate ability and preparedness of dachshunds and terriers to work in natural beds in order to control fox numbers. International earthdog trials within the period 2009 –2018 were evaluated in Slovakia, in which 1812 dogs participated, of which terriers represented 61.36% and dachshunds 38.64%. Depending on the way of work, dogs of these breeds work as bayer, bolter or hard dog. The test rules were compared in terms of animal protection, principles of ethics and welfare requirements in the Visegrad countries. We investigated the extent to which animals used in trials (foxes ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 12, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Ethical Decision-Making in Zoonotic Disease Control
AbstractTo tackle zoonotic disease threats, a One Health approach is currently commonplace and generally understood as an integrated effort of multiple disciplines to promote the health of humans, animals and the environment. To implement One Health strategies in zoonotic disease control, many countries set up early warning systems, in which human and veterinary health professionals cooperate. These systems, like the Dutch Zoonoses Structure, can be successful to detect emerging disease threats. However, these systems are not well equipped to handle moral dilemmas that can arise in zoonotic disease control, like the cullin...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 11, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

The Ethical Assessment of Touch Pools in Aquariums by Means of the Ethical Matrix
AbstractTouch pools are popular open-topped fish tanks often found in aquariums where visitors may interact with animals, by touching and sometimes even feeding them, for educational and recreational purposes. However, although animal interactions are becoming increasingly popular in recent years, the welfare impact on the animals and the educational effectiveness of such interactions is under debate. Awareness concerning the different, and sometimes controversial, aspects connected with such interactions has spread. The aim of this paper is to investigate the ethical issues arising from the presence of touch pools in aqua...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 10, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Quantifying the Valuation of Animal Welfare Among Americans
AbstractThere is public support in the United States and Europe for accounting for animal welfare in national policies on food and agriculture. Although an emerging body of research has measured animals ’ capacity to suffer, there has been no specific attempt to analyze how this information is interpreted by the public or how exactly it should be reflected in policy. The aim of this study was to quantify Americans’ preferences about farming methods and the suffering they impose on different spe cies to generate a metric for weighing the trade-offs between different approaches of promoting animal welfare. A survey of 50...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 8, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Where are We Standing and Where Should We Be Going? Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Behavior
AbstractClimate change poses as one of the greatest ethical challenges of the contemporary era and which is rapidly affecting all sectors and ecosystems, including natural ecosystems and human and social environments. The impacts on human societies, and societies ’ ability to mitigate and adapt to these changes and to adhere to ethical principles are influenced by various factors, including gender. Therefore, this study aimed to design a model of climate change adaptation behavior among rice farmers in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran, based on gender an alysis (IUCN, UNDP and GGCA in Training manual on gender and clim...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 8, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Wildlife Ethics and Practice: Why We Need to Change the Way We Talk About ‘Invasive Species’
This article calls for an end to the use of the term ‘invasive species’, both in the scientific and public discourse on wildlife conservation. There are two broad reasons for this: the first problem with the invasive species narrative is that this demonisation of ‘invasives’ is morally wrong, particularly because it usually results in the unju st killing of the animals in question. Following on from this, the second problem is that the narrative is also incoherent, both from scientific and philosophical perspectives. At the heart of both of these issues is the problem that the invasive species narrative oversimplif...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - March 6, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research