{"title":"Food Waste and Power Relations in the Agri-Food Chain. The Fruit Sector in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).","authors":"Jordi Gascón, Cristina Larrea-Killinger, Carlota Solà","doi":"10.1007/s10806-023-09908-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10806-023-09908-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies of food waste claim that its main causes are technological and logistical deficiencies in the first stages of the agri-food chain. The present article discusses this statement using a specific case as a starting point: the production of fruit in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Since the 1980s, fruit production in this region has undergone a process of innovation and development. However, the agents who participate in the sector claim that the wasted volume of edible foodstuffs is greater than in previous times. This article argues that studies of food waste do not consider the power relations existing within the agri-food chain. When these relations are asymmetrical, technological innovation and logistics optimisation do not improve the efficiency of the system; rather, they help the hegemonic players to monopolise the commercial margin and transfer some of their running costs to the weaker agents. The ethnographic data for the study were obtained between 2017 and 2019 using qualitative research techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":"36 2","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214312/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9579199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Moral Pitfalls of Cultivated meat: Complementing Utilitarian Perspective with eco-republican Justice Approach.","authors":"Cristian Moyano-Fernández","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09896-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09896-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The context of accelerated climate change, environmental pollution, ecosystems depletion, loss of biodiversity and growing undernutrition has led human societies to a crossroads where food systems require transformation. New agricultural practices are being advocated in order to achieve food security and face environmental challenges. Cultivated meat has recently been considered one of the most desired alternatives by animal rights advocates because it promises to ensure nutrition for all people while dramatically reducing ecological impacts and animal suffering. It is therefore presented as one of the fairest means of food production for the coming decades, according to utilitarian arguments. However, food security, environmental concerns and animal welfarism guided by a short-term utilitarianism could have techno-optimism bias and could result in some forms of oppression such as anthropocentrism. I argue that there are still deep-rooted moral issues in food systems that are not addressed primarily by lab-grown meat, mainly derived from a loss of sovereignty. Food practices developed in high-tech labs with artificial interventionism constrain the ability of living entities (that are used as food) to flourish on their own terms. This paper aims to explore how sovereignty entitlements for humans and nonhumans are often overlooked by advocates of cultivated meat and the moral challenges it may pose. Accordingly, a more than utilitarian approach framed by ecological and republican justice is proposed here to shed light on some pitfalls of food chains based on cellular agriculture.</p>","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":"36 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684981/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9332471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. joo, Jaeye Bae, Yechan Jung, Myung-Sun Chun, Hyomin Park
{"title":"Entertaining Commodities or Living Beings? Public Perception of Animal Welfare at Local Festivals in South Korea","authors":"S. joo, Jaeye Bae, Yechan Jung, Myung-Sun Chun, Hyomin Park","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09897-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09897-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46490163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justice and Inclusiveness: The Reconfiguration of Global–Local Relationships in Sustainability Initiatives in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector","authors":"Faustina Obeng Adomaa, S. Vellema, M. Slingerland","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09895-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09895-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48801435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Collective Trading Organisations Necessarily Inclusive of Smallholder Farmers?: A Comparative Analysis of Farmer-led Auctions in the Javanese Chilli Market","authors":"Dyah Woro Untari, S. Vellema","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09891-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09891-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48587309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities and Challenges in Applying the 3Rs to Zoos and Aquariums","authors":"S. Brando, M. Gjerris","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09892-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09892-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43711256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of ethical reflection and dialogue in conceptualising animal welfare","authors":"S. Coghlan","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09888-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09888-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42903567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Responsibility of Farmers, Public Authorities and Consumers for Safeguarding Bees Against Harmful Pesticides","authors":"A. Milford, B. A. Hatteland, L. Ursin","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09889-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09889-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47344016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impacts of Animal Farming: A Critical Overview of Primary School Textbooks","authors":"Rui Pedro Fonseca","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09887-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09887-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43129012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A complex ball game: piglet castration as a dynamic and complex social issue in the EU","authors":"Li Lin-Schilstra, Paul T. M. Ingenbleek","doi":"10.1007/s10806-022-09886-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-022-09886-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43355467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}