Vegan food system and biodiversity : an ethical analysis
Publiceringsår
2021
Upphovspersoner
Oksanen, M.; Kortetmäki, Teea
Abstrakt
The purpose of the paper is to look at the linkages between diets, biodiversity, and food system from the vegan angle (without however committing to veganism). Food production and consumption are important drivers of biodiversity loss both directly using components of biodiversity as a harvested resource and indirectly through the land-use impacts (and pollution and climate change to a slightly lesser extent). For a vegan, the destruction of non-sentient biodiversity can be wrong through the loss of well-being it causes to sentient animals and humans. Since the primary reason for agriculture related clear-cutting is the need for increased feed production and thus to support the animal agriculture, there are strong and obvious indications that a vegan diet is more biodiversity-friendly than average omnivorous diets. The paper consists of the following sections. First, we identify four assumptions that instruct the analysis. Second, we describe how the biodiversity concern for animals has historically been resource-motivated. Third, we compare the idea that meat-eating generates an enormous number of sentient animals (the so-called logic of the larder) with the idea that the conservation of biodiversity rests on resourcist ideas (what we call the logic of the ostrich). These logics are discussed with relation to how they link biodiversity conservation to diets and food ethics, a linkage that is also shortly addressed from vegan and vegetarian angles. Fourth, after characterising the previous approaches as anecdotal, we take a broader, a food-system perspective and consider how the systemic approach differs in linking biodiversity, diets, and food ethics. Our analysis is empirically informed philosophy.
Visa merOrganisationer och upphovspersoner
Östra Finlands universitet
Oksanen Markku
Publikationstyp
Publikationsform
Artikel
Moderpublikationens typ
Konferens
Artikelstyp
Annan artikel
Målgrupp
VetenskapligKollegialt utvärderad
Kollegialt utvärderadUKM:s publikationstyp
A4 Artikel i en konferenspublikationPublikationskanalens uppgifter
Moderpublikationens namn
Justice and food security in a changing climate : EurSafe 2021
Moderpublikationens redaktörer
Schübel, Hanna; Wallimann-Helmer, Ivo
Konferens
Förläggare
Sidor
341-346
ISBN
Publikationsforum
Publikationsforumsnivå
1
Öppen tillgång
Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst
Ja
Öppen tillgång till publikationskanalen
Helt öppen publikationskanal
Parallellsparad
Nej
Övriga uppgifter
Vetenskapsområden
Övriga samhällsvetenskaper; Filosofi
Nyckelord
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Förlagets internationalitet
Internationell
Språk
engelska
Internationell sampublikation
Nej
Sampublikation med ett företag
Nej
DOI
10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2_53
Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling
Ja