Consumer Rights to Informed Choice on the Food Market

Beekman, V.

doi:10.1007/s10677-007-9075-5

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“…What ethically minded people want to know is whether the burdens and benefits are equitably distributed and whether all of the relevant agents responsible in shaping the design of animal agriculture are motivated by non-superficial values (Beekman 2008). But how far is the public willing and capable to go to adopt an alternate design philosophy of technology for agriculture?…”

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confidence: 99%

Building a Sustainable Future for Animal Agriculture: An Environmental Virtue Ethic of Care Approach within the Philosophy of Technology

Anthony

2010

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Agricultural technologies are non-neutral and ethical challenges are posed by these technologies themselves. The technologies we use or endorse are embedded with values and norms and reflect the shape of our moral character. They can literally make us better or worse consumers and/or people. Looking back, when the world's developed nations welcomed and steadily embraced industrialization as the dominant paradigm for agriculture a half century or so ago, they inadvertently championed a philosophy of technology that promotes an insular human-centricism, despite its laudable intent to ensure food security and advance human flourishing. The dominant philosophy of technology has also seeded particular ethical consequences that plague the well-being of human beings, the planet, and farmed animals. After revisiting some fundamental questions regarding the complex ways in which technology as agent shapes our lives and choices and relegates food and farmed constituents into technological artifacts or commodities, I argue that we should accord an environmental virtue ethic of care-understood as caretaking-a central place in developing a more conscientious philosophy of technology that aims at sustainability, fairness, and humaneness in animal agriculture. While technology shapes society, it also is socially shaped and an environmental virtue ethic of care (EVEC) as an alternative design philosophy has the tools to help us take a much overdue inventory of ourselves and our relationships with the nonhuman world. It can help us to expose the ways in which technology hinders critical reflection of its capacity to alter communities and values, to come to terms with why we may be, in general, disengaged from critical ethical analysis of contemporary agriculture and to consider the moral shape and trajectory and the sustainability of our food production systems going into the future. I end by outlining particular virtues associated with

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Section: Part Ii: a Proposalmentioning

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Building a Sustainable Future for Animal Agriculture: An Environmental Virtue Ethic of Care Approach within the Philosophy of Technology

Anthony

2010

J Agric Environ Ethics

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“…As society focuses on ethics (Svensson & Bååth, 2008) ethical products and services may be one way to differentiate from the competition, but it may also be an obligation towards consumers' rights to informed choice (Beekman, 2008). Purchasers, however, may deviate from corporate ethical guidelines due to high pressures to reduce costs and the effects of global sourcing (Carter, 2000;Razzaque & Whee, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Supply chain configuration and moral disengagement

Eriksson

Hilletofth

Hilmola

2013

IJPM

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This research shows that supply chain configuration may facilitate or restrict opportunities of moral disengagement. It is proposed that a moral decoupling point is a point through which materials, information, and money may be transferred, while acting as a roadblock for moral responsibility. Decoupling points allow researchers to understand how moral responsibility is connected with supply chain configuration. By mapping and removing moral decoupling points managers can structure their supply chains to increase moral responsibility of employees and better fulfill ethical guidelines. Empirical material is two-fold in this study. Firstly we investigate media reports of four cases, where Swedish company's moral is questioned. This is complemented with three reallife case studies from three global Swedish led textile companies.

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“…With a societal focus on ethics, companies may not only gain a competitive advantage by producing ethical products, it may also be seen as an obligation to provide consumers with information about the conditions in the supply chain, to enable the consumers to make informed choices (Beekman, 2008). However, purchasing departments might face intense pressure to reduce costs, which can cause the employees to deviate from the ethical guidelines (Carter, 2000;Razzaque & Whee, 2002).…”

Section: Moral Aspects Of Supply Chain Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%