My ethical dilemmas around the subject of food are neither resolved nor simplified. Buying Fair Trade when I can seems good. Buying local when things are in season seems obvious. Considering farm animal welfare seems compassionate. But should I buy for example pineapples from Costa Rica? It's not simple. I could think it wrong in terms of air miles (or in terms of sheer extravagance), but if I don't buy them could I be depriving someone, in a country perhaps without the safety net of a welfare system like ours, of a livelihood, or of the chance to send their children to school? And how can I know?
Some interesting reading around this subject:
Common Wealth and The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth ed Andrew Simms and Joe Smith
Lots of questions. Not many answers though....
Some interesting reading around this subject:
Common Wealth and The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth ed Andrew Simms and Joe Smith
Lots of questions. Not many answers though....
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