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Teaching Food Ethics

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Food Ethics Education

Part of the book series: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain ((ISEKI-Food,volume 13))

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The need of food science and technology professionals to make ethical judgments in the work environment justifies the inclusion of ethics in food studies curricula to better prepare graduates for the world of work. Although this is well known in the academic community, in general, food studies have been delaying the inclusion of this topic in the curricula. This chapter presents arguments to include ethics in food studies curricula, with references to education standards and history of the teaching of ethics.

Food ethics teaching is a relatively new discipline when compared to teaching applied ethics on other subjects. Due to the limited bibliography on teaching food ethics, this chapter presents successful examples in the teaching of ethics in other disciplines for the implementation of the teaching of food ethics, including the formulation of objectives, identification of the content, and the illustration of teaching methods proven successful.

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Costa, R. (2018). Teaching Food Ethics. In: Costa, R., Pittia, P. (eds) Food Ethics Education. Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64738-8_1

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