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Food-related research in general is rich, varied, and from multiple perspectives including the health sciences – specifically nutrition – analyses of the broader agri-food system and related value chains, food engineering, and sociocultural perspectives to name a few. The rise of food studies in recent years focuses on the larger political, economic, and cultural context of agri-food systems as distinct from more technically focused research on food production, distribution, and more physiologically oriented nutritional work. Questions of values and ethics are either explicitly identified in the scholarship on food or implicit in the topics and research questions that are asked and the manner in which they are approached and answered.
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Yasmeen, G. (2018). Food Studies: Values and Ethics. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_324-1
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