Princeton University - Food Ethics 

Welcome to Food Ethics

Empirical Issues

Why Cornell?

Why Princeton?

Introduction to “Food, Inc.” and the Ithaca-Hopewell Model

Food, Inc. Analyzed

Debating Food, Inc.

First Dish: A Peek at the Menu

Eating Animals: The Data

Eating Animals: The Arguments

Andrew deCoriolis on the Feed the World Argument

Bittman on Why He’s Not Vegan

Meaty Propaganda: Seeing Through The “Spin”

Paul Shapiro on Ag-Gag Laws

deCoriolis on Humane-washing and Ag-gag Laws

Regenstein Discusses Animal Confinement

Shapiro Discusses Gestation Crates

Regenstein on Anthropomorphism

Shapiro’s Response on Anthropomorphism

deCoriolis on Maternity Pens and Anthropomorphism

Regenstein’s Final Word

Introduction to Moral Theory: The Case of Noah

Introduction to Moral Theory: What Factors Are Relevant?

Utilitarianism

Higher and Lower Pleasures

Ask Professor Singer: Why Do Vegans Eat Plants?

Bezner Kerr and Barrett on Utilitarianism

Introduction to Side Dish One

McWilliams vs. Savory

Regenstein Discusses Antibiotics and Hormones

Baker Discusses Antibiotics

Reflecting on the Least Harm Principle

Colb on Davis-style Arguments

Welcome to Food Ethics (and two key notes about the video content)

In this Dish

What Food Ethics is and is Not

Your Food-related Practices

Optional: Global Food Disparities

A Note on Vocabulary

Optional: Food Inc.

Calculate Your Environmental Impact

Optional: The Food Miles Controversy

Introducing our first Dish

About Andrew deCoriolis

Mark Bittman on the Meat Guzzler

Cattle Views and Ag-Gag Laws

Optional: Jon Stewart's Take on Gestation Crates in New Jersey

Animal Confinement: A Debate

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism (1861)

Optional: The Informed Preference Test

Introducing Peter Singer

Questions for Utilitarianism

In this Side Dish

The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers

Allan Savory and James McWilliams

Giving Antibiotics to Cows

Optional: Steven Davis and the Least Harm Principle

Professor Sherry Colb

The Foods You Eat

Mill on Higher and Lower Pleasures

Deeper Dive on Utilitarianism

The Costs and Benefits of Beef

Introducing Yourself and Your Next Meal

Your Thoughts about the IFS

Your Thoughts: Do Most Vegetarians Secretly Eat Meat?

Your Thoughts on Being Vegan (only) After Six PM?

Your Thoughts on Credibility, Facts, and Spin

Your Thoughts on Utilitarianism

Your Thoughts on McWilliams and Savory

Your Thoughts on the Use of Antibiotics in Cattle

Your Thoughts on the Least Harm Principle

Second Dish: A Peek at the Menu

Regenstein Summarizes His Argument

Regenstein on the Sustainability of the IFS

Regenstein on the Lower Emissions of the IFS

Regenstein on Petrochemicals and the Treatment of Workers

Regenstein on Dairy Farming

Logevall on Seeing the Slaughterhouse

Logevall on Eating Meat After the Slaughterhouse Tour

Salatin on Alt-Farming and New Technologies

Anu Ramaswami: An Engineer Looks at Food Ethics in the Developing World

Ramaswami on Food Waste in India and the West

Vegans, Freegans, Flexitarians, Reducetarians

Peter Singer: Why I Am a (Flexi-)Vegan

Ask Professor Singer: Almonds, Chicken, and Altruistic Omnivorism

Sheila and Gordon on Ethical and Health Motives for Giving Up Meat

Brown on the Myth of “Humane Meat”

Colb on Animals, Plants, Sentience, and Speciesism

Barrett on Cultural Sensitivity in Food Ethics

Ask Professor Singer: Are Individuals (including Andrew) Replaceable?

Introducing Kant

Kant’s Non-consequentialism

Kant on Humanity and Autonomy

Kant on Indirect Duties to Animals: Part 1

Kant on Indirect Duties to Animals: Part 2

Questions for Kant

Adams on the Treatment of Animals and Women

Balcombe on the Morality of Non-human Animals

Introduction to Side Dish Two

Susan Halteman of GFI on Going Vegan (with Kids!)

Optional: Deeper Dive on GFI

Susan Halteman on Multi-Solving and What to Call Alt-Meat

Susan Halteman on GFI's Motivations and Strategy

Susan Halteman on the Costs and Benefits of Cultivated Meat

Anu Ramaswami on Cultivated Meat and Cultural Resistance

Gordon Douglas: A Doctor on Alt-Protein and Meat

C-fu: Eating Mealworms

Kill All the Carnivores

McMahan’s Initial Comments

Travis on McMahan

McMahan on Travis-style Objections

Is this Playing God? McMahan Responds to Other Objections

In this part of the Dish

Why I Love Factory Farming

About Emma Logevall

Joel Salatin and Anu Ramaswami on Alternatives to the IFS

About Anu Ramaswami

Mark Budolfson on Altruistic Omnivorism

About Shiela Mahoney and Dr. Gordon Douglas

About Harold Brown

Singer on Taking Life and Replaceability

In this part of the Dish

Selections from Kant

Supplementary TED talk: Frans De Waal on the Moral Behavior of Animals

About Carol J. Adams

About Jonathan Balcombe

In this Side Dish: Alt Meat Tech

Cultivated (Lab-grown) Meat and Milk

Optional: Jeff McMahan - "The Meat Eaters"

About Alexander Travis

Peter Singer on Taking Life

Kant

Are They Talking Past Each Other?

Your Thoughts: Do You Now Love Factory Farming?

Your Thoughts about Kant

Your Thoughts on our Two Ethical Frameworks so far

Your Thoughts on Cultivated and Insect Meats

Your Thoughts: Do You Agree with McMahan?

Your Thoughts: Does Technology Hold the Key?

Third Dish: A Peek at the Menu

Divine Command Theory: The Scriptural Method

Divine Command Theory: God Speaks Through Conscience and Reason

Optional: Sacks on Divine Command

Optional: Gisemba on Divine Command

The Euthyphro Dilemma

Regenstein on Kosher and Halal Traditions

Regenstein on Secular Methods: Stunning, Electrocution, Gassing, Vacuuming

Regenstein on Religious Methods: Cutting and Bleeding Out

Regenstein on Religious Slaughter: What Do the Animals Feel?

Matthew Halteman on Anti-vegan Bible Passages: What About the Fish?

Matthew Halteman on Anti-vegan Bible Passages: Pigs and Demons

Introduction to Virtue Ethics and Feminism

Virtue as a Mean Between Extremes

Van Dyke Explains Her Argument

Van Dyke on Relativism

Adams Explains the Sexual Politics of Meat

Van Dyke on Her Vegan Feminist Opponents

Adams Responds to Van Dyke

deCoriolis on Meat, Race, and Cultural Heritage

Anne Cheng on Ethics in Contemporary Chinese Culture

Cheng on the Digestibility of Asian Food and Culture

Cheng on Meat Eating in China and Taiwan

Hanna Garth on Whether Anthropologists Can Do Ethics

McMahan on Moral Theory

Non-Western Ethical Views

Key Concepts of Indian Traditions

Moral Status of Animals in Buddhism

Nonviolence in Jainism

Non-attachment in Indian Traditions

Optional Deep Dive: Jnanavaca on Eating “Skillfully”

Optional Deep Dive: Sagar Shah on Food Ethics in the Jain Tradition

Introduction to Side Dish Three

Food Psychology: Why Do We Eat What We Eat?

Obesity, Stigma, Gender, and Self-Esteem

Food Psychology: The Portion Size Effect on How Much We Eat

How Much of Food Psychology is Implicit?

Shana Weber on Nudging Princeton

Virtue, Stigmatization, and Eating Disorders

The Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics

In this Dish

Read the Bible (and meet two on-campus students who believe it)

Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)

Optional: More on the Euthyphro Dilemma

Leibniz: A Theist Who is Not a Divine Command Theorist

Optional: Religions and the Moral Status of Eating Animals

Introducing Matthew C. Halteman

Matthew 8:28-34 (Jesus, Pigs, and Demons)

About Virtue Ethics

Meat and Gendered Eating: A Debate among Feminists

Food, Relativism, and Culture

About Anne Anlin Cheng

About Hanna Garth

Looking Back at Our Four Frameworks

About Katie Javanaud

Key Concepts of Indian Traditions

Modern India - Not so Vegetarian

Optional deep dive interviews: Jnanavaca and Sagar Kirit Shah

About Corey Cusimano

About Shana Weber

Optional: More on the Situationist Challenge

Virtue Ethics

The French Paradox

Virtue and Food Choices

Are You a Theist?

Your Thoughts on Locke and Atheism

Your Thoughts on Leibniz and Divine Command

Your Thoughts on Drawing Ethical Conclusions from Religious Texts

Your Thoughts on Feminism and Food-Related Virtues

Your Thought on Applying Our Frameworks to Food Issues

Your Thoughts on the Permissibility of Eating Meat in Buddhism

Your Thoughts about Nonviolence

Fourth Dish: A Peek at the Menu

Food Insecurity and Food Access

How Should We Intervene?

The Legacy of Institutional Racism

Terry on Food Access

Terry on B-Healthy!

Hanna Garth on Why Food Deserts Are Really Food Apartheid

Garth on Non-profits That Try to Promote Food Justice

Garth on “Healthy” Cooking Demos in Underprivileged LA

Terry on Race: Is Veganism Too White?

Garth on Terry’s Effort to Promote Veganism in Black Communities

David Levitsky on the Causes of Obesity

T. Colin Campbell on Animal Protein

Regenstein vs. Campbell

Campbell vs. Casein

Levitsky Raises Questions about Campbell and Casein Addiction

Barrett on Global Food Access

Corporate Responsibility: Stock/Stakeholder

Debate About Corporate Responsibility: Applying Theory

Marion Nestle on Corporate Responsibility

Garth on Black Food Matters in Los Angeles

Garth on How to Fix Food Apartheid

Bezner Kerr on Food Sovereignty

Ramaswami on Urban Gardening, Sustainability, and Well-Being

Sequeira on Community Activism and Food Security

Ask Professor Singer: Racism, Sexism, Speciesism

Introduction to Side Dish Four

Mary Jo Dudley on the Treatment of Workers

Undercover: The Lives of Farmworkers

How Ironbound Farms Houses Its Ex-felon Workers

Debate: Do We Have an Obligation Not to Purchase Food Produced on Sweatshop Farms?

Ask Professor Singer: Migrant Workers and Consumer Complicity

In this Dish

Optional TED talk: LaDonna Redmond on Food Access

Optional: A Place at the Table, and Why Poor People Make Bad Decisions

USDA Food Access Research Atlas

Statistics

About Bryant Terry and Hanna Garth

Food Insecurity Study

Scientists Debate: Does Veganism Reduce Obesity and Turn off Cancer?

Food Injustice as a Global Problem

In this part of the Dish

Optional: Milton Friedman's Manifesto

Responsibility for Eating Choices

Optional TED talk: Ron Finley's Guerrilla Gardening

Food Security vs. Food Sovereignty

About Jemila Sequeira, and Singer's Analogy between Speciesism and Racism

In this Side Dish

The Treatment of Farmworkers

Optional: Product of Mexico

Supplemental: The Lives of Farmworkers

About Ironbound Farms and Charles Rosen

Optional: Sweatshops

Special Obligations

Food Insecurity Study

On Workers

Your Thoughts about the USDA Food Access Research Atlas

Your Thoughts on Applying our Frameworks to Food Issues (second helping)

Your Thoughts on Corporate Responsibility

Your Thoughts: Is Corporate Action the Solution?

Your Thoughts about our Farm Visit

Your Thoughts about Improving the Lives of Farmworkers

Your Thoughts about the Ethics of Sweatshops

Your Thoughts: Is there an Obligation to Purchase Non-Sweatshop Food?

Fifth Dish: A Peek at the Menu

Sanford Introduces The Piggery

Sanford on Demand for Local Food

Sanford on Principles

Kolakowski on Sustainability

Haller and LaClair on Sourcing Local Food

Monica and Paul on Coltivare’s Composting Machine

Salatin on the Ballet of the Pasture

Salatin Contrasts Industrial Agriculture with Polyface Farms

Ironbound Farm’s Version of the Ithaca-Hopewell Model

Objections to the Ithaca-Hopewell Model

McWilliams on Scaling the Ithaca-Hopewell Response

Dingman on Moving From Vegan to Hunter-gatherer

Dingman on Why the Ithaca-Hopewell Response Is Not Sustainable

Terry Responds to Critics of the Ithaca-Hopewell Response

Shana Weber on What Sustainability Is

Weber on the Campus as Lab and Princeton Net Zero

Special Obligations to Neighbors

Terry on the Local Aspect of the Ithaca-Hopewell Model

Guttridge on Local Food

Irene Li: A Student Starting a Family Restaurant

Li on the Ethics of Local Sourcing

Gaulke on Local Food

Food Miles and the Ethics of Consumption

Philpott on Local Food

Charles Rosen on Ironbound’s Community-Based Horizontal Model

McWilliams Against the Locavores

Gary Fick: You Can’t Live in New York and Eat Local!

Frisch on the Local Community

Bezner Kerr on Whether Locavorism is ‘Tribalistic’

Bobolink Farms: Regenerative, Not Organic

Bobolink Farms: Why Have Animals at All?

Bobolink Farms: Treating Farmworkers Well, and the High Cost of Good Food

Bobolink Farms: Can We Feed the World This Way?

deCoriolis on the Ithaca-Hopewell (Bobolink!) Model

Introducing Ethos Farm to Health Medical Center

Rosen on How Ethos Farms Runs Without Animals

How is This a Medical Practice?

Does Veganism Turn Off Cancer?

Princeton Farminary: Introduction

Princeton Farminary: What Happens at the Farminary?

Princeton Farminary: Religion

Charles Rosen on Cider Farming near Newark, New Jersey

Rosen on Regenerative Farming in the Garden State

Rosen on Cultivating Patience with Degenerated Land

Rosen on the Viability of the Community-Based Model

Rosen on the Life of Animals at His Farm

Rosen on Learning to Listen to the Land

Rosen on Philosophy and What We’re Drinking

In this Dish

A Note about “the” Ithaca-Hopewell Model

Optional: Michael Pollan’s Letter to the Farmer in Chief

Farm-to-Store

Farm-to-Table-to-Composter

The Ballet of the Pasture, in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York

McWilliams’s Critique

About Dingman

In this part of the Dish

Arguments about Eating Local

Optional: Saunders, Barber, Taylor on Food Miles

Optional: Tom Philpott on “Regional” rather than “Local”

The Limits of Local

About Emma Frisch

Special Obligations and Consequentialism

Choose your own New Jersey Adventure

The Piggery

Special Obligations

Bobolink and Organic Certification

Bobolink and Government Subsidies

Ethos’s Ancient Inspiration

Three Farminary Convictions

The Horizontal Approach

Your Thoughts about Your Local Foodscape

Your Thoughts about the Critique of Ithaca-Hopewell Model

Optional: Your Thoughts on Sustainability and Higher Education

Your Thoughts about Arguments for Eating Local

Your Turn: Is there a Moral Obligation to Minimize Food Miles?

Your Turn: Do We Have Special Obligations to the Local?

Your Thoughts on Bobolink Farms

Your Thoughts on Ethos

Your Thoughts on Farminary

Your Thoughts on Ironbound

Dessert: A Peek at the Menu

The Bloomberg Soda Law: For and Against

Conly on Paternalism

Levitsky on Bloomberg

Wansink on Bloomberg

Introduction to Nestle and Food Politics

Nestle on Government Regulation

Nestle on Bias in Academic Research

Regenstein on Bias in Academic Research

Nestle on Whether Scientists are Compromised

Stark on U.S. Governmental Dietary Guidelines

Stark on U.S. Nutrition Policy

Pinstrup-Andersen on World Hunger

Pinstrup-Andersen on Global Food Politics

Barrett on the Right to Food

Arguing About Whether There Is a Right to Food

Hanna Garth and the Socialist Right to Food in Cuba

Garth on Food Justice in Cuba

Garth on Rights to Culturally Specific Food

deCoriolis on the Future, and What Learners Can Do

Sheila and Gordon on Students Making a Difference (with Crickets)

Sheila and Gordon on Making a Difference in Retirement

Further Opportunities in the Alt-Meat Space

Ask Professor Singer: What if I Don’t Make a Difference? (And Dumpster-Diving)

Food for Thought, and Andrew’s Confessions

What Can You Do? Reasons for Hope

Introduction to Side Dish Six

Anu Rangarajan on the Organic vs. Conventional Distinction

Peter Sutera: A Local Farmer’s Choice Not to Certify

Bezner Kerr on the Green Revolution

McWilliams on Biodiversity

Sutera on Small-Scale Farming Near Ithaca

Rosen Against Farmers’ Markets

McWilliams on Scaling Salatin

McWilliams on Organic Chemicals

Monsanto Canada Inc. vs. Schmeiser

Evaluating the Patenting of GMOs

McWilliams on GMOs

Philpott on GMOs

In this Dish

Optional: About the Bloomberg Soda Law

Optional: The Nanny State

Politics, Poverty, and the Right to Food

Influencing Government Regulators

US Governmental Dietary Guidelines

Nestle: Ethical Dilemmas in Choosing a Healthful Diet

Global Hunger

Hunger Statistics

In this Doggie Bag

Organizations Making a Difference

In this Side Dish

Organic vs. Conventional

Borlaug and the Green Revolution

Can We Feed The World?

Optional Talk: Joel Salatin, “Can We Feed the World?”

Optional: McWilliams on How Organic Coffee Ruins the World

Optional: Patents and GMOs: The Case of Monsanto

For and Against Junk Food Laws

Bias in Academic Food Research

On The Green Revolution

Your Thoughts on Junk Food Laws

Optional: Your Thoughts on Ethical Dilemmas

Your Thoughts on World Hunger

Your Thoughts on the Henry Fonda Objection

Your Thoughts on Local Organizations Making a Difference

Your Thoughts on the Green Revolution

Your Thoughts on GMOs