Food Ethic Research Articles

Building an Ethnic Food Ethic: The Case of the Ngigua Indigenous People of Southern Puebla, Mexico.

Food ethics in the indigenous context is associated with a historical and profound relationship that indigenous groups have with nature. To address this relationship and identify the food uses associated with the maguey plant from a biocultural perspective among the Ngigua indigenous people living in the municipality of Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez in Puebla, the three main communities in the municipality of Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez that make use of the maguey plant were chosen. The study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using a semi-structured interview as a research technique. The analysis carried out recognises the importance of the maguey plant as a biocultural resource for the Ngigua in a context of ethical deliberation. Among the food uses associated with the maguey plant, the following are identified: pulque (a drink of pre-Hispanic origin) and red worm. Women play an important role, participating in 80% of the preparation of both foods. The cultural environment of the maguey is a way of life that, in the case of the Ngigua people, represents a strategic element for survival. In times of food crisis, the study shows how ethnic food strategies in a context of ethical deliberation can constitute an alternative for the design of food solutions in territories with food shortages.

Eating Insects: A Christian Ethic of Farmed Insect Life

Proponents of entomophagy have argued that the farming of insects offers many advantages when contrasted with more traditional farming practices. This article explores the place of insect farming within a wider Christian food ethic and argues that insect farming has much to recommend it. However, through exploring the role of animal agriculture within the ideological structures of anthropocentrism, a more ambiguous picture of the ethics of insect farming emerges. This belies a simple endorsement or denunciation of insect farming as an ethical alternative to the farming of larger animals. Moreover, the example of insect farming reveals that Christian food ethics needs to radically reimagine the entire food provisioning system if it is to inculcate substantive change in human relationships with nonhuman animals.

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic, by MargaretGray, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐5202‐7669‐7.

Rural SociologyVolume 82, Issue 4 p. 805-808 Book Review Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic, by Margaret Gray, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-5202-7669-7. Amy K. Marion, Amy K. Marion Portland State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Amy K. Marion, Amy K. Marion Portland State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 December 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12201Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume82, Issue4December 2017Pages 805-808 RelatedInformation

Toward an Ethic of Sustainability

First paragraphs: Sustainable farming is ultimately an ethical commitment. As I have written in a previous column, There are lots of other where people can make more money with far fewer physical and intellectual challenges...Unless they truly believe that farming is their 'calling,' I advise would-be farmers to choose other occupations (Ikerd, 2015a, p. 10). A purpose or calling determines what a person should and should not do with their lives and thus is a matter of ethics. In a previous column, I proposed a Food Ethic as a guide for purposeful eating (Ikerd, 2015b). I think we also need an Ethic of Sustainability as a guide for purposeful living, in farming or any other way of life. I propose: A thing is when it tends to enhance the quality and integrity of both human and nonhuman life on earth by honoring the unique responsibilities and rewards of humans as members and caretakers of the earth's integral community. A thing is wrong when it tends otherwise. First, the ethic goes beyond defining sustain-able practices or even principles by defining some things we might do as right and others as wrong. Questions of and wrong cannot be answered using currently accepted scientific methods. These are matters of belief or faith. Thus scientists tend to ignore them, and consequently so do most advocates of sustainability. This has allowed the concept of sustainability to be trivialized and coopted by corporations and marginalized by government agencies....

Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems

Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems

Toward a Food Ethic

First paragraphs: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic is credited with defining a new relationship between people and nature and setting the stage for the modern conservation movement (Aldo Leopold Foundation, n.d.). Most simply stated: A thing is right when tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when tends otherwise (Partridge, 1993, Land Ethic, para. 10). Again, in the words of Leopold, The ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land (Aldo Leopold Foundation, n.d., para. 1). I believe we need a similar Food Ethic to guide the modern sustainable agriculture movement. Some may question the need for a new ethic. There is already an interdisciplinary field of study called ethics that provides ethical analysis and guidance for human conduct in the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food (Peeler, 2015, para. 2). Catholic Rural Life program has long reminded us that Eating is a Moral Act, noting that, We say this simply because sustains life. But the world of agriculture is extremely complex and there are many moral dimensions to it (Catholic Rural Life, 2012, para. 1). idea of a ethic also is a common sentiment among Native Peoples. Ethical eating certainly is not new idea....

Book review: Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Book review: Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. By Margaret Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 225 p. $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. - Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics. By Chad Lavin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 212 p. $67.90 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. By Margaret Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 225 p. $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. - Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics. By Chad Lavin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 212 p. $67.90 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Book Review| May 01 2015 Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Gray, Margaret. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014xi + 225 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Charles Thompson, Jr. Charles Thompson, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 186–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2838049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Thompson; Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Labor 1 May 2015; 12 (1-2): 186–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2838049 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Social Justice in Agriculture: Perspectives from France and the United States: Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic and Food, Farms, & Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

Social Justice in Agriculture: Perspectives from France and the United States: <i>Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic</i> and <i>Food, Farms, &amp; Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops</i>

Margaret Gray: Labor and the locavore: the making of a comprehensive food ethic

Margaret Gray: Labor and the locavore: the making of a comprehensive food ethic

A World in a Rice Bowl: Chiha Kim and an Emerging Korean Food Ethic

A World in a Rice Bowl: Chiha Kim and an Emerging Korean Food Ethic