The ethics of consumption : the citizen, the market and the law : EurSafe 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-14 September 2013

Bokens baksida: "We are all consumers. What we consume, how, and how much, has consequences of great moral importance for humans, animals, and the environment. Great challenges lie ahead as we are facing population growth and climate change and reduced availability of fossil fuels. It is often argued that key to meeting those challenges is changing consumption patterns among individual as well as institutions, for instance through reducing meat consumption, switching to organic or fair trade products, boycotting or 'buycotting' certain products, or consuming less overall. There is considerable disagreement regarding how to bring this about, whose responsibility it is, and even whether it is desirable. Is it a question of political initiatives, producer responsibility, the virtues and vices of individual consumers in the developed world, or something else? Many of these issues pose profound intellectual challenges at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, economics, and several other fields. This publication brings together contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, including philosophy, law, economics, sociology and animal welfare, who explore the theme of 'the ethics of consumption' from different angles." Content: 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 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 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 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 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 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 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 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 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 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 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 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 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 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 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 Front Matter....Pages 297-297 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 Front Matter....Pages 319-319 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 Front Matter....Pages 339-339 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 Front Matter....Pages 359-359 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 Front Matter....Pages 359-359 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 Front Matter....Pages 393-393 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 Front Matter....Pages 429-429 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 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 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 Front Matter....Pages 463-463 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 Front Matter....Pages 463-463 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 The Precautionary Principle in contextPrudent vigilance; Conclusion; References; Certification for sustainable biofuels; Abstract; Introduction; Biofuel certificates; The sustainable production assumption; The use plan approach; Use plans and certificates; Can proper use of certification fulfil the EU Renewable Energy Directive goals?; Conclusion; References; Employing the capability approach in assigning individual responsibility for sustainable development; Abstract; Introduction; Distinguishing conceptual and normative issues; The capability approach; Normative issues; Conceptual issues The international regulation of the food market: precedents and challengesAbstract; The orthodox view: trade restrictive measures are an unlawful restraint on free trade; The 'EU veal calves' case; The view of the WTO: 'Tuna-Dolphins' and 'Shrimp-Turtle'; Embracing fisheries-related trade restrictive measures post-millennium; Trade measures as a means of regional fisheries management; Fisheries trade measures and the European Union: Regulation 1005/2008; Conclusion; References; Precaution or prudent vigilance as guiding the path to global food security?; Abstract; Introduction Category management in Swedish food retail: challenges in ethical sourcingAbstract; Introduction - perspectives on ethical consumption in food retail; Corporate responsibility as category management - a conceptual framework; Two cases of category management - instrumental and political CR; References; Consumer perspectives on ethics in garment consumption:perceptions of purchases and disposal; Abstract; Introduction - perspectives on consumption of garments; Aim, objectives and approach; An empirical study of consumer behaviour - to buy and dispose of garments; References Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Preface; Keynote contributions; Economization of animals: the case of marketization of halal foods; Abstract; Introduction to economization of animals via marketization; References; The virtue of simplicity3; Abstract; References; Placing and scaling ethical choices: ethical consumption and ethical public procurement; References; Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations; Abstract; Introduction; Role of external relations; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Section 1. Market and policy Impacts of sustainability labels on consumers' purchasing decisions for fishAbstract; Introduction; Research approach; Results; Conclusion; References; Food for good: social movement organizations making sustainable markets for 'good food'; Abstract; Background; Social movements as market makers; The practice of market making; Research context and method; Food collective movement; Method; Food collectives making the markets for good food; Conclusions; References; Who owns hazard? The role of ownership in the GM social experiment; References