FOOD ETHICS, 2E explores the relationship between the food industry and individual consumers, people groups, and the environment. This handpicked collection of twenty-six readings examines such topics as genetically modified foods, animal rights, centralized versus local production, vegetarianism, and more. Students are also encouraged to explore the relationship between food ethics and climate change, population, consumption and migration, technology, development and capitalism, and pollution. In addition, this edition includes four new readings and a new basic introduction to ethics. It also features updated introductions, a comprehensive index, and study questions that help students discuss and reflect on noteworthy issues.

1. INTRODUCTION.
David M. Kaplan, Food Ethics.
2. ANIMAL RIGHTS
Immanuel Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth. Holly L Wilson, Green Kant: Kant's Treatment of Animals. Peter Singer, A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation. Tom Regan, The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights. Mary Anne Warren, A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory.
3. POPULATION AND CONSUMPTION.
Bill McKibben, A Special Moment in History: The Challenge of Overpopulation and Overconsumption. Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons. Elinor Ostrom, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Policansky, Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Jacqueline Kasun, The Unjust War against Population. Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics. William Murdoch and Allan Oaten, Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics.
4. POLLUTION.
Hilary French, You Are What You Breathe. David Watson, We All Live in Bhopal. William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution. David Pimentel, Is Silent Spring Beyond Us?.
5. FOOD ETHICS.
Mylan Engel, Jr., Hunger, Duty and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Human Beings. Tristram Coffin, The World Food Supply: The Damage Done by Cattle-Raising . Michael Fox, Vegetarianism and Planetary Health. Jonathan Rauch, Can Frankenfood Save the Planet? Mae Ho, Unholy Alliance: Critiques of Genetically Modified Foods. The ETC Report, The Poor can Feed Themselves. Marion Nestle, From "Eat More" to "Eat Less": 1900-1990. Alice Waters, Slow Food Nation. Eric Schlosser et al., One Thing to Do About Food.

FOOD ETHICS, 2E explores the relationship between the food industry and individual consumers, people groups, and the environment. This handpicked collection of twenty-six readings examines such topics as genetically modified foods, animal rights, centralized versus local production, vegetarianism, and more. Students are also encouraged to explore the relationship between food ethics and climate change, population, consumption and migration, technology, development and capitalism, and pollution. In addition, this edition includes four new readings and a new basic introduction to ethics. It also features updated introductions, a comprehensive index, and study questions that help students discuss and reflect on noteworthy issues. New reading selections include material from Policansky, Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges; Marion Nestle, From "Eat More" to "Eat Less": 1900-1990; Alice Waters, Slow Food Nation; Eric Schlosser et al., One Thing to Do About Food. An expanded and comprehensive index helps students locate examples, definitions, and arguments. Revised introductions to each section, chapter, and reading ensure that students receive clear and current content. An intriguing introduction to this emerging discipline opens the textbook and is followed by twenty-five topical readings from diverse voices. Chapter introductions establish frameworks for the readings, provide background material on each reading's social context, offer biographical information on the selection's author, and highlight key information for students to consider while reading. Study questions at the end of each selection promote discussion and reflection, while suggestions for further reading encourage students to discover new topics of interest.