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E-raamat: Practical Ethics for Food Professionals - Ethics in Research, Education and the Workplace: Ethics in Research, Education and the Workplace [Wiley Online]

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"The only book to focus on the ethical issues confronting food industry professionals"--

"This book offers a practical guide to the most pressing ethical issues faced by those working in food manufacturing and associated industries. Early chapters look at the fundamentals of ethical thinking and how lessons of medical ethics might be appliedto the food industry. The book then addresses some issues specifically relevant to the food industry, including treatment of animals; the use of genetically modified organisms; food product advertising; health claims and sustainability. Several further chapters present case studies which show how ethical thinking can be applied in real life examples.This volume should be on the desk of every food industry professional responsible for important decisions about science, marketing, resources, sustainability, the environment and people"--

This book offers a practical guide to the most pressing ethical issues faced by those working in food manufacturing and associated industries. Early chapters look at the fundamentals of ethical thinking and how lessons of medical ethics might be applied to the food industry. The book then addresses some issues specifically relevant to the food industry, including treatment of animals; the use of genetically modified organisms; food product advertising; health claims and sustainability. Several further chapters present case studies which show how ethical thinking can be applied in real life examples.

This volume should be on the desk of every food industry professional responsible for important decisions about science, marketing, resources, sustainability, the environment and people.

Contributors ix
Preface xi
PART I PRINCIPLES
1 Fundamentals of ethics: the use of virtues
3(18)
Edmund G. Seebauer
2 Lessons from medical ethics
21(18)
Thomas A. Nairn
3 Ethical principles and the ethical matrix
39(18)
Ben Mepham
4 An East Asian perspective on food ethics: implications for childhood obesity in mainland China
57(20)
Vinh Sum Chau
PART II ISSUES IN FOOD INDUSTRY ETHICS
5 Ethics in business
77(16)
Timothy F. Bednarz
6 Ethics in publishing/reporting food science and technology research
93(8)
Daryl Lund
7 Humane treatment of livestock
101(16)
Temple Grandin
8 Sustainable food production and consumption
117(18)
Jeanette Longfield
9 Good or bad foods? Responsible health and nutrition claims in Europe
135(18)
Sue Davies
10 Worker exploitation in food production and service
153(20)
Charlie Clutterbuck
PART III EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES
11 Ethical practices in the workplace
173(16)
J. Peter Clark
12 Ethical thinking and practice
189(14)
Louis B. Clark
13 The fair trade movement
203(18)
Richard Norman
14 A serious case: the Peanut Corporation of America
221(18)
Mark F. Clark
15 Ethical aspects of nanotechnology in the area of food and food manufacturing
239(8)
Herbert J. Buckenhuskes
16 Food commodity speculation - an ethical perspective
247(18)
Chris Sutton
PART IV CONCLUSION
17 Reflections on food ethics
265(12)
Christopher Ritson
Index 277
Dr J. Peter Clark is Consultant to the Process Industries and Contributing Editor: Food Technology magazine (IFT), Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Christopher Ritson is Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Marketing at the Centre for Rural Economy, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University, UK