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Animal rights and food: Beyond Regan, beyond vegan

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posted on 2022-04-05, 13:42 authored by Josh MilburnJosh Milburn
This chapter investigates the ethical implications of the food waste issue. It considers the wider role of ethics in society. It discusses general ethical issues in relation to food. It provides an overview of an ethical food system to supply all individuals with regular supply of a variety of healthy foods. Further, the production, distribution, and retailing carried out in an environmentally sustainable manner in which the welfare of animals also upheld. The chapter suggests food waste reduction link to reduce hunger, reduce obesity, and reduce environmental degradation. Responses to food waste highlights prior to concluding comments. Food security is defined by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

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Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland

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  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • International Relations, Politics and History

Published in

The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics

Pages

284 - 293

Publisher

Routledge

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© The Author

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics on 14 July 2016, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138809130.

Publication date

2016-07-14

Copyright date

2017

ISBN

9781138809130; 9781315745503

Book series

Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Mary Rawlinson; Caleb Ward

Depositor

Dr Josh Milburn. Deposit date: 28 March 2022

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