Readings

[FES] = Buy at Amazon Barnhill, Anne, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett. Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings. Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0199321742

 

session reading
1: Introduction No readings
2: Moral Theory

Required:

Keating, Joshua E. "How food explains the world." Foreign Policy 186 (2011): 73.

Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster" Gourmet. Last modified August, 2004.
3: Global Hunger (Consequentialist Ethics Approach)

Required:

[FES] Page 8, Weiss, Kenneth. "As the World's Population Grows, Hunger Persists on a Massive Scale"

[FES] Page 64, Singer, Peter. "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"

"Hungry Planet: What the World Eats." Time. Last modified on May 23, 2016.

Recommended:

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter. "Consequentialism." (2003).
4: Global Hunger (Harm Principle)

Required:

[FES] Pages 36-59, Chapter 2 "Global Hunger"

Recommended:

Buy at Amazon "Lifeboat Ethics" in Pojman, Louis, Paul Pojman, Katie McShane. Food Ethics. Cengage Learning, 2016. ISBN: 978-1285197319

Brink, David. "Section 3.6: The Harm Principle" in Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007.
5: Global Hunger (Political Approaches)

Required:

Kuper, Andrew. "More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the "Singer Solution"." Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002): 107-128.

Singer, Peter. "Poverty, Facts, and Political Philosophies: Response to "More Than Charity"." Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002): 121-124

Kuper, Andrew. "Facts, Theories, and Hard Choices." Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. 2 (2002): 125-126.

[FES] Page 75, Sen, Amartya. "Hunger and Entitlements"

Recommended:

Burchi, Francesco, and Pasquale De Muro. "A Human Development and Capability Approach to Food Security: Conceptual Framework and Informational Basis." Background paper, no. 8 (2012).
6: Famine Relief: Ethics or Politics

Required:

[FES] Page 84, Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther. "More Than One Billion People Are Hungry in the World, But What if the Experts Are Wrong?"

Iltis, Tony. "Kenya: Flower Cash Crops Reap Hunger, Destruction." Green Left Weekly 13 (2011).

Recommended:

Freidberg, Susanne. "French beans for the masses: a modern historical geography of food in Burkina Faso." Journal of Historical Geography 29, no. 3 (2003): 445-463.
7: Justice and Oppression

Required:

[FES] Page 115, Clinton, Marianna. "Witness to Hunger"

[FES] Page 120, Food Research Action Center. "Angel's Story"

[FES] Page 135, Young, Iris. "Five Faces of Oppression"
8: Food Sovereignty

Required:

[FES] Page 122, White, Kyle Powys. "Food Justice and Collective Food Relations."

[FES] Page 158, Delcaration of Nyéléni
9: Food and Identity

Required:

[FES] Pages 226-238, "Food and Identity"

Murcott, Anne. "The cultural significance of food and eating." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 41, no. 02 (1982): 203-210.

Recommended:

Buy at Amazon "Little Meals with Great Implications" in Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. A Stew Or a Story: An Assortment of Short Works by MFK Fisher. Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006. ISBN: 978-1593761653
10: Gender, Race, Religion, and ...

Required:

[FES] Page 275, Chapter 6. "Food and Religion"

[FES] Page 240, Vantrease, Dana. "Common Bods and Frybread Power: Government Food Aid in American Indian Culture."

[FES] Page 556, Jayaraman, Saru. "Restaurant Workers"

Recommended:

[FES] Page 264, Deck, Alice A. "Now Then....Who Said Biscuits? The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising"

Buy at Amazon Chapter 12 in Seid, Roberta Pollack. Never Too Thin: Why Women Are at War with Their Bodies, 1989. ISBN: 978-0136156000
11: Justice in Food Production

Required:

[FES] Page 11, Estabrook, Barry. "The Price of Tomatoes"

McWilliams, James. "PTSD in the Slaughterhouse." The Texas Observer (2012).

[FES] Page 160, Thompson, Paul B. "Food Security and Food Sovereignty"
12: Capitalism and Liberty

Required:

[FES] Page 560, Wertheimer, Alan. "The Value of Consent"

[FES] Page 566, Liberto, Hallie. "Exploitation and the Vulnerability Clause"
13: Capitalism and the Food System, part 1

Required:

Hylton, Wil S. "A Bug in the System: Why last night's chicken made you sick." The New Yorker (2015).

Moss, Michael. "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food." New York Times (2013).
14: Film Screening Watch Flow: For the Love of Water
15: Capitalism and the Food System, part 2 No required readings
16: Speciesism

Required:

[FES] Page 352, Singer, Peter. "All Animals Are Equal"

Steinbock, Bonnie. "Speciesism and the Idea of Equality." Philosophy 53, no. 204 (1978): 247-256.

Recommended:

[FES] Page 362, Tännsjö, Torbjörn. "It's Getting Better All the Time"

Norcross, Alastair. "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases." Philosophical Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 229-245.
17: Respect for Animals

Required:

[FES] Page 366, Korsgaard, Christine. "Getting Animals in View"
18: Harm and Killing

Required:

[FES] Page 391, Scruton, Roger. "Eating our Friends"

[FES] Page 395, Harman, Elizabeth. "The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Animal Death"
19: Vegetarianism and Veganism

Required:

[FES] Page 189, McPherson, Tristram. "How to Argue for (and against) Ethical Veganism"

[FES] Page 204, Budolfson, Mark. "The Inefficacy Objection to Utilitarian Theories of the Ethics of the Marketplace"

[FES] Page 215, Michaelson, Eliot. "A Kantian Response to Futility Worries?"

Recommended:

[FES] Page 210, Michaelson, Eliot. "Act Consequentialism and Inefficacy"
20: Waste and Freeganism (Gleaning)

Buy at Amazon Chapters 1 and 9 in Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food (and what we can do about it). Da Capo Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0738215280.

[FES] Page 219, Singer, Peter and Mason, Jim. "Freeganism and Food Waste"
21: Food, for Free

Required:

[FES] Page 490, McKibben, Bill. "A Grand Experiment"

de Bres, Helena. "Local Food: The Moral Case."

Recommended:

[FES] Page 440, Desrochers, Pierre and Shimizu, Hiroko. "The Locavore's Dilemma"

"Good Food?" The Economist. Last modified December 7, 2006. 

Rob Johnston. "The Great Organic Myths." Independent. Last modified April 30, 2008. 

Food, for Free website
22: Industrial Plant Agriculture

Required:

[FES] Page 407, Chapter 9 "Industrial Plant Agriculture"

[FES] Page 434, Borlaug, Norman "Feeding a World of 10 Billion People"

Recommended:

"Hidden Costs of Industrial Agriculture." Union of Concerned Scientists.
23: Environmentalism

Required:

Buy at Amazon "People or penguins: The case for optimal pollution." in Pojman, Louis, Paul Pojman, Katie McShane. Food Ethics. Cengage Learning, 2016. ISBN: 978-1285197319

Wenz, Peter S. "This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Ecology and Morality (PDF - 2.5MB)." Ethics and Animals (1983).

Recommended:

Buy at Amazon "Deep Ecology." in Pojman, Louis, Paul Pojman, Katie McShane. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, 1985. ISBN: 978-1285197241
24: Locavorism

No required readings
25: GMOs

Required:

[FES] Page 477, Ronald, Pamela. "The Truth about GMOs"

[FES] Page 454, Naylor, Rosamond. "GMOs and Preventing Hunger"

[FES] Page 456, Philpott, Tom. "Why I'm Still Skeptical of GMOs"
26: Food Activism

Required:

Buy at Amazon "Activism, social and political" in Anderson, Gary L., Kathryn G. Herr, eds. Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Sage Publications, 2007. ISBN: 978-1412918121