Agriculture Ethics

In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 384–386 (2009)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Health and Environment Topsoil Erosion Monocrops Global Trade Genetically Modified Food Animals.

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agriculture ethics is a branch of applied ethics that deals with a wide range of issues related to the farming of food, ranching and processing livestock   history of agriculture is inseparably linked to human history and the history of technology   Twentieth‐century agriculture and “intensive farming,” ‐ highly productive system based on use of agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, mechanized processing   monocrops ‐ The practice of planting monoculture crops, single crops grown over thousands of kilometers   Global Trade ‐ Trade and the globalization of agriculture increasingly “delocalizing” the origin of food and the political authority over food policy   Genetically modified (GM) foods are plants and animals that have been altered using recombinant DNA technology

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9781444310795   9781405146012

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10.1002/9781444310795.ch65

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