From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone by Paul B. ThompsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Modern debates about food, ranging from food and social justice issues to GMO, are complicated issues. The problem is that for most people, they are seen as relatively simple, because modern pedagogy is taught in isolated silos of subjects and because people generally don't make decisions based on strictly rational thought.
In From Field to Fork Paul Thompson discusses the primary debates going on today, not merely as issues of food, but as debates of social norms, history, philosophy, ethics, economics, politics, psychology, and yes, even the hard sciences. He shows how these debates cut through, across, and involve all these disciplines and how a single discipline simply is inadequate to inform any of these debates.
Even though the book itself is about food, the methods and principles that Thompson utilizes can be extended and applied to just about any contentious topic. He demonstrates why a liberal arts education is still valuable and necessary, and gives evidence of why a good philosophical foundation is vital, even in a modern, data-driven and science-heavy society.
Whatever your views of food in relation to economics, social justice, politics, and scientific innovations, this book will give you something to think about and in ways that you probably hadn't thought to think. It is a very philosophical work, referencing a number of key philosophers and their schools. It is not a light and easy book to read.
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