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Aid and TradeIn Charles V. Blatz (ed.), Ethics and agriculture: an anthology on current issues in world context, University of Idaho Press. pp. 340. 1991.
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42Need and safety: The nuclear power debateEnvironmental Ethics 6 (1): 57-69. 1984.Many arguments for and against nuclear power can be analyzed according to a matrix of logically competing claims on the need and safety of nuclear power. Logical analysis of the arguments reveals their philosophical basis and contributes to an understanding of their explanatory appeal. The evidential value of claims made in the arguments of both supporters and opponents depends upon familiar issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science
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1Value judgments and risk comparisons : the case of genetically engineered cropsIn Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and values: essential readings, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 347-355. 2010.
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44The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental EthicsUniversity Press of Kentucky. 2010.Agrarian political philosophies since ancient Greece stress the role of agriculture in forming political solidarity and civic virtue. More recent transformations suggest a way to conjoin these elements of what makes a polity politically sustainable with environmental sensitivity and literacy.
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200F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk: Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare: Oxford University Press, New York, 2011, xiv + 409 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-955116-3 (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26 (2): 517-521. 2013.F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk: Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s10806-012-9377-z Authors Paul B. Thompson, WK Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, 503 South Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1032, USA Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Online ISSN 1573-322X Print ISSN 1187-7863
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36The reshaping of conventional farming: A north american perspective (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (2): 217-229. 2001.Debates over the future of agriculture in North Americaestablish a dialectical opposition between conventional,industrial agriculture and alternative, sustainable agriculture.This opposition has roots that extend back to the 18th century inthe United States, but the debate has taken a number ofsurprising turns in the 20th century. Originally articulated as aphilosophy of the left, industrial agriculture has utilitarianmoral foundations. In the US and Canada, the articulation of analternative to …Read more
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88Ethics and the genetic engineering of food animalsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 (1): 1-23. 1997.Biotechnology applied to traditional foodanimals raises ethical issues in three distinctcategories. First are a series of issues that arise inthe transformation of pigs, sheep, cattle and otherdomesticated farm animals for purposes that deviatesubstantially from food production, including forxenotransplantation or production of pharmaceuticals.Ethical analysis of these issues must draw upon theresources of medical ethics; categorizing them asagricultural biotechnologies is misleading. The second…Read more
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The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social ContractCambridge University Press. 1992.The traditional military-territorial model of the nation state defines international duties in terms of protecting citizens' property from foreign threats. In this 1992 book about the principles of the US agricultural policy and foreign aid, Professor Thompson replaces this model with the notion of the trading state that sees its role in terms of the establishment of international institutions that stabilize and facilitate cultural and intellectual, as well as commercial, exchanges between natio…Read more
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32Science policy and moral purity: The case of animal biotechnologyAgriculture and Human Values 14 (1): 11-27. 1997.Public controversy over animalbiotechnology is analyzed as a case that illustratestwo broad theoretical approaches for linking science,political or ethical theory, and public policy. Moralpurification proceeds by isolating the social,environmental, animal, and human health impacts ofbiotechnology from each other in terms of discretecategories of moral significance. Each of thesecategories can also be isolated from the sense inwhich biotechnology raises religious or metaphysicalissues. Moral puri…Read more
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