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"Industrial Food for Thought: Timescapes of Risk"
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
The aim of this paper is to consider more closely how uncertainty affects our moral responsibility to future generations, and to what extent moral agents can be held responsible for activities that inflict risks on future people.
The essay focuses on the scientific approaches emerging from WW II that attempted to identify key risks to food security and to highlight how wartime experiences informed notions of food security within international organizations for many decades to come.