Franz-Theo Gottwald – författare

In this first decade of the 21st century, more than 854 million people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics many African and south Asian nations could only fathom. In this great discord, there have arisen many interdisciplinary discussions about problems in the field of applied Ethics, with regards to food, that are crossing a considerably wide spectrum of disciplines, such as: obesity, traceability, agro-food biotechnology, dairy industry, transgenic plants, novel food, bio fuels, world-trade system, etc.

This book presents international discussions and information concerning food ethics in its current state. It presents a variety of important aspects in the field of food ethics with respect to positions, instruments and applications of issues surrounding nutrition. A great deal of the book will concern itself with discussing different ethical positions and problems of current interests, as explained by experts of the "food-ethics-community". The articles will focus on the reality of global food problems through two main issues:

The appendix presents a collection of current declarations and political statements – visions, proposals and goals in a worth living world in general and concerning specific problems - water, healthy food, the human right to food, sustainability and food sovereignty.

Zivilisierte Gesellschaften haben stets auch den Verdacht genährt, dass die lichten Segnungen kulturellen Fortschritts eine düstere Kehrseite haben, die dem menschlichen Wohlbefinden mehr schadet als nützt. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Stimmen von Weisen aller Zeiten, die vor Verkünstelung, Hektik und Übermaß jeglicher Art warnen und das Hohelied der Einfachheit singen, das auch heute nichts von seiner zeitlosen Aktualität verloren hat.

Ergänzt wird die Dokumentation dieser reichen Tradition durch drei Herausgeber-Essays, die diesen geistigen Schatz für die Gegenwart erschließen.