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Paul B. Thompson, From field to fork: food ethics for everyone

Paul B. Thompson, From field to fork: food ethics for everyone Agric Hum Values (2017) 34:1035–1036 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9795-7 Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2015, 329 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-939169-1 Mark L. Wilson   Accepted: 24 April 2017 / Published online: 1 May 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 Once in a while somebody writes an important book near Though there were hundreds of books and articles about the end of a long, distinguished career. Paul B. Thomp- food, the subject did not gain the full attention of philoso- son, after 40 years in the business, accomplished this in his phers. Maybe it’s because much of the world’s labor was recent book: From Field to Fork, food ethics for everyone. working the fields and subsistence was a practical matter, With the eye of a philosopher and the rigor of an agricul- not a philosophical one. tural economist—Thompson is both—he covers big ideas Thompson identifies the renewal of food ethics during about food. the Industrial Revolution with Utilitarian writings in the Food ethics does not follow a straight line—it’s more mid-1800s. One explanation for this renewal is that new like hacking your way through a thicket. The subject technologies, like threshing machines and reapers, greatly explores how humans eat, how land is used, how http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Paul B. Thompson, From field to fork: food ethics for everyone

Wilson, Mark
Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 34 (4) – May 1, 2017
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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10.1007/s10460-017-9795-7
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Agric Hum Values (2017) 34:1035–1036 DOI 10.1007/s10460-017-9795-7 Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2015, 329 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-939169-1 Mark L. Wilson   Accepted: 24 April 2017 / Published online: 1 May 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 Once in a while somebody writes an important book near Though there were hundreds of books and articles about the end of a long, distinguished career. Paul B. Thomp- food, the subject did not gain the full attention of philoso- son, after 40 years in the business, accomplished this in his phers. Maybe it’s because much of the world’s labor was recent book: From Field to Fork, food ethics for everyone. working the fields and subsistence was a practical matter, With the eye of a philosopher and the rigor of an agricul- not a philosophical one. tural economist—Thompson is both—he covers big ideas Thompson identifies the renewal of food ethics during about food. the Industrial Revolution with Utilitarian writings in the Food ethics does not follow a straight line—it’s more mid-1800s. One explanation for this renewal is that new like hacking your way through a thicket. The subject technologies, like threshing machines and reapers, greatly explores how humans eat, how land is used, how

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