The ethics of consumption: The citizen, the market and the law

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Front Matter....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Economization of animals: the case of marketization of halal foods....Pages 21-24
The virtue of simplicity....Pages 24-29
Placing and scaling ethical choices: ethical consumption and ethical public procurement....Pages 29-31
Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations....Pages 31-39
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Impacts of sustainability labels on consumers’ purchasing decisions for fish....Pages 39-45
Food for good: social movement organizations making sustainable markets for ‘good food’....Pages 46-50
Who owns hazard? The role of ownership in the GM social experiment....Pages 51-53
Category management in Swedish food retail: challenges in ethical sourcing....Pages 54-58
Consumer perspectives on ethics in garment consumption: perceptions of purchases and disposal....Pages 59-63
The international regulation of the food market: precedents and challenges....Pages 64-70
Precaution or prudent vigilance as guiding the path to global food security?....Pages 71-76
Certification for sustainable biofuels....Pages 77-82
Employing the capability approach in assigning individual responsibility for sustainable development....Pages 83-88
Crop protection in horticulture: how to rescue growers from punishment for shortfall of control agents?....Pages 89-93
‘Oil versus fish’ in northern Norway: perspectives of the market, the law, and the citizen....Pages 94-99
Food consumerism in today’s China: towards a more experience-oriented economy?....Pages 100-104
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The relevance of sustainability for the consumer in a food context: a segmentation analysis....Pages 107-113
‘Unnecessary suffering’ as a concept in animal welfare legislation and standards....Pages 114-119
Animal welfare labelling: is the market the right governance structure to meet people’s moral concerns?....Pages 120-125
Why pure procedural justice doesn’t remove the individual responsibility to make right economic judgments....Pages 126-132
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The gullible consumer in EU food law....Pages 135-140
Ethics and consumerism: legal promotion of ethical consumption?....Pages 141-146
Local foods, food quality and agricultural soil consumption: new challenges for the European Union....Pages 147-152
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The choice that disappeared: on the complexity of being a political consumer....Pages 154-159
Green food consumption: whose responsibility?....Pages 160-165
Shaping the context and content of food choices....Pages 166-171
The consumer does not exist: overcoming the citizen/consumer paradox by shifting focus....Pages 172-176
Consumer citizenship: a self-contradictory concept?....Pages 177-182
The impossibility of an ethical consumer....Pages 183-188
Getting the message across: the importance of information in Fair Trade marketing....Pages 189-194
Closer to nature: the ethics of ‘green’ representations in animal product marketing....Pages 195-200
Towards a broader understanding of citizenship in policy debate on food advertising to children....Pages 201-206
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Comfort, health and production: Portuguese dairy farmers talk about animal welfare....Pages 209-214
Farmers’ views on the impact of breeding traits on profitability, animal welfare and environment....Pages 215-220
The welfare of dairy cattle: perspectives of industry stakeholders....Pages 221-224
Gnawing doubt: eating animals and the promise of cultured meat....Pages 225-229
Innovation and recognition of food and farming styles....Pages 230-235
Large scale insect rearing and animal welfare....Pages 236-242
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Beneath the surface: killing of fish as a moral problem....Pages 245-250
In awe of fish? Exploring animal ethics for non-cuddly species....Pages 251-256
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Fish welfare, environment and food security: a pragmatist virtue ethics approach....Pages 257-262
Animal welfare, consumer behaviour, and public policy....Pages 263-267
The ‘secret’ of killing animals....Pages 268-272
More than harm: a critical analysis of the harm principle in Regan’s thinking....Pages 273-278
Dignity of creature: beyond suffering and further....Pages 279-283
The moral status of animals: a relational approach....Pages 284-289
Meat and the benefits of ambivalence....Pages 290-295
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AquAdvantage or disadvantage: social and legal pros and cons of genetically modified fish....Pages 299-304
Comparing the ethics of capture fisheries and aquaculture....Pages 305-312
Whose sustainability counts? Engaging with debates on the sustainability of Bangladeshi shrimp....Pages 313-320
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Personalised nutrition and social justice: ethical considerations within four future scenarios from the perspective of Nussbaum’s capabilities approach....Pages 321-327
Individual animal welfare and the collective dimension of sustainability: the role of animal welfare in developments towards sustainable food production and consumption....Pages 328-332
Ethics of authenticity of food: analogies from biodiversity protection....Pages 333-340
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Justifying pro-poor innovation in the life sciences: a brief overview of the ethical landscape....Pages 341-346
Scaling values: a perspective from philosophy of technology....Pages 347-352
The knowledge society as pleonasm: towards mobilisation of social intelligence in the agricultural and food domain....Pages 353-358
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Ethical concerns beyond the border: how European animal welfare policies reach Brazil....Pages 361-365
Reasoning rejection of factory farming: the importance of aesthetic and eudaimonistic arguments....Pages 366-370
Hunting for food in environmental ethics....Pages 371-373
Tail docking in the EU: a case of routine violation of an EU Directive....Pages 374-378
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The reintegration of animals and slaughter into discourses of meat eating....Pages 379-385
Does the society perceive its own responsibility for modern pig production?....Pages 386-392
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Public sector food procurement in UK local authorities: ethics and sustainability....Pages 395-398
The scientifically motivated regulation of food: a discursive analysis of the EU health claims regulation on omega-3 fatty acids....Pages 399-404
Obesity and costs of low energy density foods: a case for state against consumer responsibility....Pages 405-411
Can healthy eating at school be considered a human right?....Pages 412-416
Potential of transformative consumer learning for governance for animal welfare by public catering?....Pages 417-422
School meals: bridging the gap between citizen expectations, procurement skills and legislation....Pages 423-428
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Contextualising food policy to the citizen: religions as a paradigm....Pages 431-436
The ethics of consuming: community, agency, and participation in global food systems....Pages 437-447
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Vethics: professional ethics for veterinary officers....Pages 451-456
Assessment of effects of ethics teaching to 1st year veterinary students by using the ethical reasoning tool....Pages 457-462
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Who is a ‘consumer’ on food law: some reflections on the notion of consumer and the EU food law....Pages 465-470
Food safety and ethical responsibility in a globalized world – the role of private standards....Pages 471-475
Societal conformity of conventional and diversifying pork production systems in five European countries....Pages 476-481
The legal clash between public health, environmental protection and the free market of GMOs: the Cartagena protocol and the WTO agreements....Pages 482-486
Mediterranean diet and sustainable food habits: the case of Neapolitan children....Pages 487-493
Knowledge synthesis and dissemination in organic research in Sweden: integrating ethics....Pages 494-498
Water consumption in rural areas: limits of the ethics of water use - study case of Kurdistan Region, Iraq....Pages 499-503
Success and failure of transnational certification regimes....Pages 504-509
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Sustainability index for beef production in Denmark and Sweden: preliminary results....Pages 510-515
Stress-free slaughter of outdoor cattle....Pages 516-521
Meating agriculture....Pages 522-527
Statistics on crimes committed to animals and changes in the animal welfare control in Sweden....Pages 528-533
Back Matter....Pages 535-537