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Hsiao on the Moral Status of Animals: Two Simple Responses
AbstractAccording to a common view, animals have moral status. Further, a standard defense of this view is the Argument from Consciousness: animals have moral status because they are conscious and can experience pain and it would be bad were they to experience pain. In a series of papers (J Agric Environ Ethics 28(2):277 –291, 2015a, J Agric Environ Ethics 28(11):11270–1138, 2015b, J Agric Environ Ethics 30(1):37–54, 2017), Timothy Hsiao claims that animals do not have moral status and criticizes the Argument from Consciousness. This short paper defends the Argument from Consciousness by providing two simple r espons...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Ethical Concerns in Poultry Production: A German Consumer Survey About Dual Purpose Chickens
AbstractThe paper offers insights into the acceptability of ethical issues in poultry production and how this situation provides an opportunity to transform the prevailing system into a more sustainable one. The survey among German consumers reveals that killing day-old chicks is a well-known practice and is rated as “very problematic”. In contrast, dual-purpose chickens are mostly unknown but are considered a positive alternative to killing day-old chicks (after the concept has been explained). Consumer clusters were identified regarding purchasing criteria for dual-purpose chickens, purchasing routines and socio-econ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Responsible Innovation for Life: Five Challenges Agriculture Offers for Responsible Innovation in Agriculture and Food, and the Necessity of an Ethics of Innovation
AbstractIn this special issue we will investigate, from the perspective of agricultural ethics (e.g. animal welfare, agricultural and food ethics, environmental ethics etc.) the potential to develop a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach to agriculture, and the limitations to such an enterprise. RRI is an emerging field in the European research and innovation (R&I) policy context that aims to balance economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspects in innovation processes. Because technological innovations can contribute significantly to the solution of societal challenges like climate change or food se...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 17, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Entanglements of Water Management
AbstractThis review essay investigates Andrea Ballestero ’sA Future History of Water (Duke University Press, Durham, 2019), Jeremy Schmidt ’sWater: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity (New York University Press, New York, 2017), and Wade Graham ’s BraidedWaters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawai ’i (University of California, Oakland, 2018) within the wider theme of water-human relationships. More specifically, these books provide insight into the human dimensions of water management as they explore the process of how water impacts and drives economic, social, and political change. By do...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Anthropodicy and the Fate of Humanity in the Anthropocene: From the Disenchantment of Evil to the Re-enchantment of Suffering
AbstractThe rise of a collective conscience of a new epoch, the Anthropocene, has brought to the fore scientists ’ predictions of irreversible damage done to the Earth’s ecosystems within barely a decade. The passive attitude worldwide of placing the task of overcoming the evil consequences of human activity on specialized forums (e.g., national governments and international organizations) has already prov ed to be insufficient. In this context, Hamilton seeks to continue Becker’s project of laying down the foundations of an “anthropodicy,” seen as a humanistic science meant to bring a participatory dimension to ...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

The Precautionary Principle in EU Regulation of GMOs: Socio-Economic Considerations and Ethical Implications of Biotechnology
This article addresses the issue of gap between science, ethics, and socio-economic considerations related to the cultivation and authorisation of GM crops. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - October 2, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Biblical Gardens in Word Culture: Genesis and History
This study is to show the effects of the 20 years long scientific work to formulate the original genesis of the Biblical garden idea. The characteristics of 64 facilities situated in 14 countries has been presented for the first time so widely. This enabled us to show both the history of these gardens and how they are situated in the cultural and social context. The effect of various factors inspiring people of various professions to create Biblical gardens both near sacral buildings and within the secular areas has been evidenced. Biblical gardens exercise the principle s of gardens of senses and learning gardens. And it...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - September 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Fast Food Sovereignty: Contradiction in Terms or Logical Next Step?
This article analyze s existing conceptualizations of fast food, explores fast food historically, and studies how food sovereignty can operationalize its tenets and priorities in situations where fast food is an unquestionable necessity. (Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics)
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 22, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 6, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Inconsequential Contributions to Global Environmental Problems: A Virtue Ethics Account
AbstractThis paper proposes an answer to what Sandler calls ‘the problem of inconsequentialism’; the problem of providing justification for the claim that individuals should engage in unilateral reductions of their personal consumption, even though doing so will make an inconsequential contribution to mitigating the harmful impacts of the global environm ental problems that the aggregate of such consumption causes. I provide an answer to this problem by developing a virtue ethics-based argument that a limited but significant class of consumption actions performed by typical consumers in rich, industrialised economies i...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 5, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Individuals ’ Contributions to Harmful Climate Change: The Fair Share Argument Restated
AbstractIn the climate ethics debate, scholars largely agree that individuals should promote institutions that ensure the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This paper aims to establish that there are individual duties beyond compliance with and promotion of institutions. Duties of individuals to reduce their emissions are often objected to by arguing that an individual ’s emissions do not make a morally relevant difference. We challenge this argument from inconsequentialism in two ways. We first show why the argument also seems to undermine the case for duties to promote institutions that the arguments’ proponents...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Introduction to the Special Issue on Individual Environmental Responsibility
Human beings are the cause of many current environmental problems. This poses the question of how to respond to these problems at the national and international level. However, many people ask themselves whether they should personally contribute to solving these problems and how they could (best) do so. This is the focus of this Special Issue on Individual Environmental Responsibility. The introduction proposes a way to structure this complex debate by distinguishing three broad clusters of arguments. The first cluster tackles the kind of ethical theory we need to properly address different aspects of individual responsibi...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Climate Ethics with an Ethnographic Sensibility
AbstractWhat responsibilities does each of us have to reduce or limit our greenhouse gas emissions? Advocates of individual emissions reductions acknowledge that there are limits to what we can reasonably demand from individuals. Climate ethics has not yet systematically explored those limits. Instead, it has become popular to suggest that such judgements should be ‘context-sensitive’ but this does not tell us what role different contextual factors should play in our moral thinking. The current approach to theory development in climate ethics is not likely to be the most effective way to fill this gap. In existing work...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Individuals ’ Contributions to Harmful Climate Change: The Fair Shιιare Argument Restated
AbstractIn the climate ethics debate, scholars largely agree that individuals should promote institutions that ensure the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This paper aims to establish that there are individual duties beyond compliance with and promotion of institutions. Duties of individuals to reduce their emissions are often objected to by arguing that an individual ’s emissions do not make a morally relevant difference. We challenge this argument from inconsequentialism in two ways. We first show why the argument also seems to undermine the case for duties to promote institutions that the arguments’ proponents...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Individual Compensatory Duties for Historical Emissions and the Dead-Polluters Objection
AbstractDebates about individual responsibility for climate change revolve mainly around individual mitigation duties. Mitigation duties concern future impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, climate change has already caused important harms and it is foreseeable that it will cause more in the future, in spite of our best efforts. Thus, arguably, individuals might also have duties related to those harms. In this paper, I address the question of whether individuals are obligated to provide compensation for climate related harms that have already occurred. I explore two possible strategies to answer that question. Thestrai...
Source: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - August 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research