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Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food

By Christian Coff , David Barling , Michiel Korthals , Thorkild Nielsen

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
1402085230, 9781402085239, 9781402085246
Open Library ID
OL23197016M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1985039 bytes)
Series
The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Edition
1
Pages
329\329
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Traceability – the ability to track a product from farm to plate – is now widely used in the food sector for a range of purposes: it allows companies to improve efficiency, facilitates product recall, and helps producers flag the specific characteristics of their goods. But traceability systems are mainly designed and used by the people directly involved in the food chain. The people at the end of the food chain – food consumers – have little say in which attributes are traced, and can rarely access the information stored in traceability systems. This book draws on philosophical discourses (like ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law) around food ethics and empirical research in three important food chains (UK bread, Danish bacon and Greek olive oil) to argue that ethical traceability systems could be used to communicate food information to consumers, allowing them not only to make food choices consistent with their own values, but also to play a more informed role in the way food is produced and distributed. It will appeal to academics, students and policy makers with an interest in traceability, food ethics and food policy.

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