Moral Reasons for Individuals in High-Income Countries to Limit Beef Consumption.

Autor: Barnhill A; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA., Bernstein J; Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Faden R; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA., McLaren R; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA., Rieder TN; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA., Fanzo J; Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA.; Berman Institute of Bioethics, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Food ethics [Food Ethics] 2022; Vol. 7 (2), pp. 11. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 17.
DOI: 10.1007/s41055-022-00100-8
Abstrakt: This paper argues that individuals in many high-income countries typically have moral reasons to limit their beef consumption and consume plant-based protein instead, given the negative effects of beef production and consumption. Beef production is a significant source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, high levels of beef consumption are associated with health risks, and some cattle production systems raise animal welfare concerns. These negative effects matter, from a variety of moral perspectives, and give us collective moral reasons to reduce beef production and consumption. But, as some ethicists have argued, we cannot draw a straight line from the ethics of production to the ethics of consumption: even if a production system is morally impermissible, this does not mean that any given individual has moral reasons to stop consuming the products of that system, given how miniscule one individual's contributions are. This paper considers how to connect those dots. We consider three distinct lines of argument in support of the conclusion that individuals have moral reasons to limit their beef consumption and shift to plant-based protein, and we consider objections to each argument. This argument applies to individuals in high beef-consuming and high greenhouse gas-emitting high-income countries, though we make this argument with a specific focus on the United States.
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41055-022-00100-8.
Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest/Competing InterestsOn behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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