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Food Ethics is a global trans-, multi- and interdisciplinary, as well as non-partisan and cross-cultural forum for academic discussions on food ethics. Thematically, the journal spans the whole value chain from producer to consumer, including important agents such as processing industry and retailers. It covers all aspects related to the production and consumption of human food, and it has a focus on the utilization of seafood, crops and plants, and animals. Environmental issues such as the sustainable use of land areas and the natural resources, e.g. freshwater, are included in the thematic focus, and special attention is given to the development and use of modern technology, e.g. biotechnology, as a way to improve global food security. Attention is also paid to issues like animal welfare and fair trade, as well as just and democratic governance of the value chains. Food security, food safety and sovereignty, rights and responsibilities, as well as cultural determinants and frameworks of understanding food are natural thematic focal points.
Contributions are encouraged from a wide range of fields of scholarly research such as natural science, health and medicine, veterinary science, social sciences, business administration, law, philosophy, economics, ecology, history, and ethics. However, all published contributions need to make the ethical issues and value aspects that are at stake in the work explicit. Working out the ethical dilemmas involved, describing the inherent value conflicts, analysing normative guidance for policy and management, and pointing to consequences of changing the range of objects with considerable moral standing, are all possible ways to address ethical issues related to food. Critical, normative and descriptive analyses and contributions that relate to training and teaching of food ethics are welcome.
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