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From the editor Richard P. Haynes
Accepted: 6 March 2012 / Published online: 22 March 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
The current number has seven articles and one book review. Three of the articles use empirical studies. The first article is by Chaone Mallory. In ‘‘Locating Ecofeminism in Encounters With Food and Place,’’ the author explores the relationship between ecofeminism, food, and the philosophy of place. As an example, she uses her own neighborhood ‘‘in a racially integrated area of Philadelphia with a thriving local foods movement that nonetheless is nearly exclusively white and in which women are the invisible majority of purchasers, farmers, and preparers’’ to examine ‘‘what ecofeminism contributes to the discussion of racial, gendered, classed discrepancies regarding who does and does not participate in practices of locavorism and the local foods movement more broadly.’’ She argues that ecofeminism ‘‘with its focus on the ways that race, class, gender, and place are ontologically entangled, helps to highlight the ways identity and society are made and re-made through our encounters with food.’’ The second article, ‘‘Longevity as an animal welfare issue applied to the case of foot disorders in dairy cattle,’’ is by M. R. N. Bruijnis, F. L. B. Meijboom, and E. N. Stassen. The authors want to investigate whether longevity, and not just functioning or feeling well is a criterion of animal welfare. One area in which this issue arises in the normal dairy cow industry is the case of foot disorders that arise as the result of housing conditions. Does culling the lame animals solve the welfare issue. The authors explorer whether longevity is an independent moral argument in an animal welfare discussion and conclude that it is. The third article is by Le´o Coutellec. In ‘‘Crop protection between sciences, ethics and societies. From quick-fix ideal to multiple partial solutions,’’ Coutellec describes what he calls ‘‘integrative approaches’’ to sustainable agriculture, approaches that in the past raise a serious challenge to the ‘‘Green Revolution.’’ A new challenge arises from the so-called ‘‘miracle solutions’’ promised by R. P. Haynes (&) Gainesville, FL, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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agrochemistry and agro-genetics, so the author describes the agro-environmental limits of these two ‘‘miracle solutions,’’ and follow this with a review from an ethical and an epistemological point of view that enables them ‘‘to demonstrate the relevance of integrated approaches in agriculture and leads to a definition of crop protection that forms part of a strong approach in sustainable development. By changing the semantics, the epistemic position and our vision of production, we arrive at the proposal of sustainable agriculture.’’ In the fourth article, ‘‘The Myth of Efficiency: Technology and Ethics in Industrial Food Production,’’ authors Diana Stuart and Michelle Woroosz explore how the application of technological tools has reshaped food production systems in ways that foster larg
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