Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

Paul B. Thompson is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, with partial appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Resource Development Departments. He previously held positions as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Food Animal Productivity and Wellbeing at Purdue University and prior to that positions as Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics, at Texas A&M University. Editorial positions at Springer are a jointly held position of editor-in-chief of the bookseries The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, and membership of the editorial boards of the journals Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. David M. Kaplan is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at theUniversity of North Texas. He is the author of Food Philosophy (Columbia University Press), editor of The Philosophy of Food (University of California Press), and coeditor with Paul B. Thompson of the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, First Edition (Springer). He has published articles on food technologies, genetically modified food, artificial ingredients, and junk food. He also manages the Philosophy of Food Project.

Absentee Landlords and Agriculture.- Access to Land and the Right to Food.- Aesthetic Value, Art, and Food.- Africa, Food, and Agriculture.- African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN).- Agrarianism and the Ethics of Eating.- Agricultural and Food Products in Preferential Trade Agreements.- Agricultural Cooperatives.- Agricultural Ethics.- Agricultural Science and Ethics.- Agricultural Sciences and Ethical Controversies of Biofuels.- Agriculture and Ethical Change.- Agriculture and Finance.- Agriculture of the Middle.- Alcohol Abstinence and Sobriety.- Alcohol as Food and the Good Life.- Alimentary Delinquency.- American Cuisine, Existence Of.- American Food Rhetoric.- Ancestral Cuisine and Cooking Rituals.- Animal Agriculture and Welfare Footprints.- Animal Welfare in the Context of Animal Production.- Animal Welfare: A Critical Examination of the Concept.- Aroid Production and Postharvest Practices.- Artisanal Food Production and Craft.- Asian Cuisine: Ethical Considerations.- Authenticity in Food.- Beef Production: Ethical Issues.- Biodiversity.- Biodiversity and Global Development.- Biodynamic Agriculture.- Bioethics at Purdue University.- Biofuels: Ethical Aspects.- Biopharming.- Biosecurity and Food Systems.- Biotechnology and Food Policy, Governance.- Body Image, Gender, and Food.- Brazilian Agriculture.- Brillat-Savarin and Food.- Buddhism, Cooking, and Eating.- Buddhist Perspectives on Food and Agricultural Ethics.- Canada, US-EU Beef Hormone Dispute.- Cannibalism.- Carbon Farming.- Carnism.- Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics.- Child Nutrition Guidelines and Gender.- Chinese Agriculture.- Chocolate: Ethical Dimensions.- Christian Ethics and Vegetarianism.- Christian Mysticism and Food.- Christian Perspectives on Food and Agricultural Ethics.- Christian Stewardship in Agriculture.- Christianity and Food.- Civic Agriculture.- Climate Change, Ethics, and Food Production.- Community-Supported Agriculture.- Company Identity in the Food Industry.- Conservation Agriculture: Farmer Adoption and Policy Issues.- Conventionalization Hypothesis.- Cooking Tools and Techniques: Ethical Issues.- Cooking, Food Consumption, and Globalization: Ethical Considerations.- Corporate Farms.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Food.- Cosmopolitanism, Localism and Food.- Cross-Contamination of Crops in Horticulture.- Cuban Agriculture.- Culinary Cosmopolitanism.- Culinary Tourism.- Derrida and Eating.- East European Agriculture.- Eating Disorders.- Eating Disorders and Disturbed Eating.- Eating Etiquette.- Eating and Nutrition.- Eating Invasive Species.- Eating, Feeding and the Human Life Cycle.- Eating, Feeding, and Disability.- Ecofeminist Food Ethics.- Economy of Agriculture and Food.- Ecosystems, Food, Agriculture, and Ethics.- Ecotopia.- Egg Production: Ethical Issues.- Emergency Food System: Soup Kitchens and Food Pantries.- Environmental and Animal Pragmatism.- Environmental Ethics.- Environmental Justice and Food.- Epicureanism and Food.- EquipmentSharing in Agriculture.- Escoffier.- Ethical Activism with Consideration of the Routine of Food Culture.- Ethical Assessment of Dieting, Weight Loss, and Weight Cycling.- Ethical Matrix and Agriculture.- Ethics and Food Taste.- Ethics of Agricultural Development and Food Rights in International Organizations.- Ethics of Dietitians.- Ethics of Nutrigenomics.- Ethics in Food and Agricultural Sciences.- Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Food.- EU Regulatory Conflicts over GM Food.- European Cuisine: Ethical Considerations.- Expertise in Agriculture: Scientific and Ethical Issues.- Extraterritorial Obligations of States and the Right to Food.- Fair Trade in Food and Agricultural Products.- Farm Management.- Farmer Types and Motivation.- Farmers Markets.- Farmer-Scientist Knowledge Exchange.- Farms: Small Versus Large.- Fasting.- Feeding Children.- Food Porn in Media.- Food Addiction.- Food Additives and International Trade.- Food Advertising to Children: Policy, Health, and Gender.- Fo