Animals in the Law and Humanities Working Group
Presents:
Josh Milburn
Food Justice and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully
Tuesday October 22, 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
VIRTUAL
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Abstract: Josh Milburn’s new book Food Justice and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford University Press, 2024) asks the question: How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. Buy maybe we should reject the assumption. The author provides a rigorous analysis of the ethics of farming invertebrates, producing plant-based meats, developing cultivated animal products, and co-working with animals on genuinely humane farms, arguing that these possibilities offer the chance for a food system that is non-vegan, but nonetheless respects animals’ rights. This book argues that a future non-vegan food system would be permissible on an animal rights view. It might even be desirable.
Josh Milburn was the 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies in the Queen’s University Department of Philosophy. While at Queen's, he explored the ethics of feeding animals. The results of this research were published as his 2022 McGill-Queen's University Press book Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals. After his time at Queen's, Josh returned to the UK, working at the University of York and the University of Sheffield. He started a lectureship in the Department of International Relations, Politics, and History at Loughborough University in 2022. His second book, Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully, was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press; his third, Animals, State, and Utopia: Robert Nozick's Animal Ethics is forthcoming, also with Oxford University Press. Josh has been the host of the animal studies podcast Knowing Animals, which has featured many members of APPLE as guests, since 2020.
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