Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food

Calendar

ses#	Topics	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Moral Theory
I. Global Hunger and Moral/Political Frameworks
3	Global Hunger (Consequentialist Ethics Approach)
4	Global Hunger (Harm Principles)
5	Global Hunger (Political Approaches)
6	Famine Relief: Ethics or Politics
II. Food Justice
7	Justice and Oppression	Assignment 1: Pond and Charity due
8	Food Sovereignty
9	Food and Identity
10	Gender, Race, Religion, and….	First paper topic due
11	Justice in Food Production
12	Capitalism and Liberty
13	Capitalism and the Food System, part 1
14	Film Screening, Flow: For the Love of Water
15	Capitalism and the Food System, part 2	Assignment 2: Flow due
III. Animal Welfare
16	Speciesism	1st Paper Rewrite due
17	Respect for Animals
18	Harm and Killing
IV. Consumer Ethics
19	Vegetarianism and Veganism	Assignment 3: Activism due
20	Waste and Freeganism (Gleaning)	Second Paper due
V. Industrial Agriculture
21	Food, for Free
22	Industrial Plant Agriculture	Assignment 4: Food for Free due
23	Environmentalism	Final Communications Project due
24	Locavorism
25	GMOs	Presentations of final projects, Assignment 5: Personal Reflection due
26	Final lecture wrap-up	Final paper due