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167From trust to trustworthiness: Why information is not enough in the food sectorJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 19 (5): 427-442. 2006.The many well-publicized food scandals in recent years have resulted in a general state of vulnerable trust. As a result, building consumer trust has become an important goal in agri-food policy. In their efforts to protect trust in the agricultural and food sector, governments and industries have tended to consider the problem of trust as merely a matter of informing consumers on risks. In this article, we argue that the food sector better addresses the problem of trust from the perspective of …Read more
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37From the guest editors food ethics and consumer concernsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 12 (2): 111-112. 2000.
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38Brave New Birds: The Use of 'Animal Integrity' in Animal EthicsHastings Center Report 32 (1): 16-22. 2002.Suppose “chicken” eggs could be produced by quasi‐chickens—genetically engineered humps of living chicken‐flesh that do nothing but lay eggs. Would there be anything amiss with that? Animal ethicists invoke the notion of animal integrity in order to give intellectual content to the intuition that there would be. On inspection, ‘integrity’ isn't everything its proponents want it to be. Yet there's enough in it to make reasoned argument possible.
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15Food, Consumer Concerns, and Trust: Food Ethics for a Globalizing MarketJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 12 (2): 127-139. 2000.The use of biotechnology in food productiongives rise to consumer concerns. The term ``consumerconcern'' is often used as a container notion. Itincludes concerns about food safety, environmental andanimal welfare consequences of food productionsystems, and intrinsic moral objections againstgenetic modification. In order to create clarity adistinction between three different kinds of consumerconcern is proposed. Consumer concerns can be seen assigns of loss of trust. Maintaining consumer trustask…Read more
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68A plea to implement robustness into a breeding goal: poultry as an exampleJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (2): 109-125. 2008.The combination of breeding for increased production and the intensification of housing conditions have resulted in increased occurrence of behavioral, physiological, and immunological disorders. These disorders affect health and welfare of production animals negatively. For future livestock systems, it is important to consider how to manage and breed production animals. In this paper, we will focus on selective breeding of laying hens. Selective breeding should not only be defined in terms of p…Read more
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Wiens redenen, welk publiek?: Publieke rechtvaardiging met behulp van identiteitsvormende redenenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 97 (4): 287-291. 2005.
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11An Ethical Toolkit for Food Companies: Reflections on its UseJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 20 (1): 99-118. 2007.Nowadays many debates are going on that relate to the agricultural and food sector. It looks as if present technological and organizational developments within the agricultural and food sector are badly geared to societal needs and expectations. In this article we briefly present a toolkit for moral communication within the food chain. This toolkit is developed as part of a European research project. Next, we discuss what such a toolkit can bring about, given the characteristics of the present d…Read more
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151Beyond the Prevention of Harm: Animal Disease Policy as a Moral QuestionJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (6): 559-571. 2009.European animal disease policy seems to find its justification in a “harm to other” principle. Limiting the freedom of animal keepers—e.g., by culling their animals—is justified by the aim to prevent harm, i.e., the spreading of the disease. The picture, however, is more complicated. Both during the control of outbreaks and in the prevention of notifiable, animal diseases the government is confronted with conflicting claims of stakeholders who anticipate running a risk to be harmed by each other…Read more
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110Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment: An Empirical Model to Describe Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment on the Culling of Healthy Animals During an Animal Disease EpidemicJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 22 (4): 341-359. 2009.In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy animals in an animal disease epidemic. We used philosophical animal ethics theories to understand the moral basis of FMA convictions. Moreover, these theories provide us with a moral language for communication between animal ethics, FMAs, and public …Read more
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7Over idealen: het belang van idealen in recht, moraal en politiek (edited book)W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink. 1998.
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62Ethics and Sustainability: Guest or Guide? On Sustainability as a Moral Ideal (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25 (2): 117-121. 2012.Ethics and Sustainability: Guest or Guide? On Sustainability as a Moral Ideal Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s10806-011-9322-6 Authors Franck L. B. Meijboom, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13a, 3512 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands Frans W. A. Brom, Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13a, 3512 BL Utrecht, The Netherlands Journal Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Online ISSN 1573-322X Print ISSN 1187-7863
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22Legislation on Ethical Issues: Towards an Interactive ParadigmEthical Theory and Moral Practice 3 (1). 2000.In this article, we sketch a new approach to law and ethics. The traditional paradigm, exemplified in the debate on liberal moralism, becomes increasingly inadequate. Its basic assumptions are that there are clear moral norms of positive or critical morality, and that making statutory norms is an effective method to have citizens conform to those norms. However, for many ethical issues that are on the legislative agenda, e.g. with respect to bioethics and anti-discrimination law, the moral norms…Read more
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60To act or not to act? Sheltering animals from the wild: A pluralistic account of a conflict between animal and environmental ethicsEthics, Place and Environment 6 (1). 2003.The leading question of this article is whether it is acceptable, from a moral point of view, to take wild animals that are ill out of their natural habitat and temporarily bring them under human control with the purpose of curing them. To this end the so-called 'seal debate' was examined. In the Netherlands, seals that are lost or ill are rescued and taken into shelters, where they are cured and afterwards reintroduced into their natural environment. Recently, this practice has been criticised …Read more
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29Proposal for a transatlantic platform for consumer concerns and international tradeJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 12 (2): 207-214. 2000.Consumer concerns pop up. They are relatedto the safety of agrifood products for people, foranimals, and for the environment as well as the socialand ethical implications of certain agrifoodproduction methods. At first sight, the WTO agreementand the SPS and TBT agreements appear to offersufficient legal scope to deal with these concerns andresolve trade conflicts. The events of recent years,however, have shown the limitations of theseagreements in dealing with cultural differencesbetween nation…Read more
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88Intrinsic value and direct duties: From animal ethics towards environmental ethics? (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 14 (2): 241-252. 2001.Three types of concern for animal welfare are widelyheld: Animals should feel well, they should function well, andthey should lead natural lives. The paper deals with a well-knownanswer to the question of why such concerns are morallyappropriate: Human beings have direct duties towards animals,because animals are beings that can flourish, the flourishing ofanimals is intrinsically or inherently valuable, and that whichis conducive to their flourishing is a legitimate object of moralconcern. Look…Read more
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Het ethische adviesrapport - Een ethisch rapport geeft zelden een concreteoplossing voor een probleem. Vaak wordt er een nieuw perspectief gebodenFilosofie En Praktijk 19 206-219. 1999.
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27Do's and dont's for ethics committees: Practical lessons learned in the netherlands (review)HEC Forum 12 (4): 344-357. 2000.
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24You eat what you are: Moral dimensions of diets tailored to one's genesJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 16 (6): 557-568. 2003.Thanks to developments in genomics,dietary recommendations adapted to genetic riskprofiles of individual persons are no longerscience fiction. But what are the consequencesof these diets? An examination of possibleimpacts of genetically tailor-made diets raisesmorally relevant concerns that are analogous to(medical-ethical) considerations aboutscreening and testing. These concerns oftengive rise to applying norms for informedconsent and for the weighing of burdens andbenefits. These diets also h…Read more
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33An ethical toolkit for food companies: Reflections on its use (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 20 (1): 99-118. 2007.Nowadays many debates are going on that relate to the agricultural and food sector. It looks as if present technological and organizational developments within the agricultural and food sector are badly geared to societal needs and expectations. In this article we briefly present a toolkit for moral communication within the food chain. This toolkit is developed as part of a European research project. Next, we discuss what such a toolkit can bring about, given the characteristics of the present d…Read more