Yale University Library Research Guides: Food and Religion: Food Ethics

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Food, Farming, and Faith (Online) by Gary W. Fick Using scripture and science, a Christian agricultural scientist presents an ethic of farming that promotes good food and a healthy environment.
Food Farming and Faith in God: Emerging Ethical Perspectives by Gretel Van Wieren Examines how religious traditions and communities in the United States and beyond are responding to critical environmental ethical issues posed by the global food system.
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics (Online) by Todd LeVasseur (Editor); Pramod Parajuli (Editor); Norman Wirzba (Editor) Discusses how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture. Analyzes a multitude of agricultural practices for their contributions to healthy, ethical living and environmental justice.

The Faults of Meat by Geoffrey Barstow (Editor) Shows vegetarianism as a significant, ongoing issue of debate for Tibetans across time and traditions, with a wide variety of voices marshaled against meat, and a few in favor.
Food for Life: the Spirituality and Ethics of Eating by L. Shannon Jung Encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world.
Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics by Shmuly Yanklowitz (Editor)
Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating by Catherine L. Newell Explores how individuals internalize scientific knowledge regarding health and diet, and then incorporate that information into their lives as the basis of a personal spiritual practice.

Food Philosophy: An Introduction by David M. Kaplan An introduction to the philosophical dimensions of food. Examines the nature and meaning of food, how we experience it, the social role it plays, its moral and political dimensions, and how we judge it to be delicious or awful.
Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating Under Globalization (Online) by C. Mary Rawlinson; Caleb Ward Philosophers and political theorists have only recently begun to pay attention to food as a critical domain of human activity and social justice. The essays collected here address this lack in philosophy and political theory by appreciating food as an origin of human culture and a network of social relations.
Food for Thought: Philosophy and Food by Elizabeth Telfer Looking at the philosophical issues raised by food this short and accessible book questions the place food should have in our individual lives. It shows how traditional philosophy and its classic texts can illuminate an everyday subject.

Food Ethics: The Basics (2nd edition) by Ronald L. Sandler A concise introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most prominent ethical questions relating to food and agriculture.
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (Online) by Anne Barnhill (Editor); Tyler Doggett (Editor); Mark Budolfson (Editor) Provides a sample of that philosophical work across multiple areas of food ethics: conventional agriculture and alternatives to it; animals; consumption; food justice; food politics; food workers; and, food and identity.