The 11th Congress of

The European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) 2013

“The Ethics of Consumption:

The Citizen, The Market and The Law”

11–14th September 2013, Uppsala, Sweden

Program

www.slu.se/eursafe2013

Program overview

Wednesday 11th Thursday 12th Friday 13th Saturday 14th

Morning Mistra Biotech workshop Welcome note Keynote presentation 1 Parallel sessions

Keynote presentation 3 Parallel sessions

Keynote presentation 4 Parallel sessions Workshop on labeling EurSafe General Assembly

Afternoon Mistra Biotech workshop Panel discussion on ethics of production

Parallel sessions Keynote presentation 2 DACH workshop NordNafe workshop EurSafe Newsletter workshop

Parallel sessions Workshop on teaching Workshop / Panel on consumer responsibility

Evening Welcome reception at University Main Building

Reception at Gustavianum Congress dinner at Garden of Linnaeus (Linnéträdgården)

Plenary presentations: Plenary Hall X, University Main Building Parallel sessions: Lecture Halls I, II, IV, VIII, XI, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, all in the University Main Building Lunches: Restaurant Galejan, Address: S:t Larsgatan 7A Coffee/tea breaks and posters: Ground floor, University Main Building

Details day by day

Wednesday 11th September 2013

9.00–15.45 Satellite event Mistra Biotech workshop: Ethical Issues in New Biotechnology in Agriculture (Auditorium Minus, Gustavianum (between University Main Building and the Cathedral) Registration before 3rd September, see http://www.slu.se/eursafe2013 for further information

16.00–18.00

Satellite event Panel discussion on ethics of production: Ethics for sale? (University Main Building (Plenary Hall X) No registration, see http://www.slu.se/eursafe2013 for further information

18.15 Welcome reception and Registration (University Main Building)

Thursday 12th September 2013

8.00 Registration opens

9.00–9.30 Welcome note (Plenary Hall X) Pro Vice-Chancellor at SLU Prof. Johan Schnürer; President of EurSafe Prof. Matthias Kaiser; Local Org. Com.

9.30–10.30 Keynote presentation 1 (Plenary Hall X)

Mara Miele: Economization of animals: the case of marketization of halal foods

Chair: Bo Algers

10.30–11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00–12.00 Animal philosophy Session 6 (Lecture Hall VIII)

Market and policy Session 1 (Hall I)

Teaching veterinarians Session 13 (Lecture Hall IV)

Citizenship and consumers Session 4 (Lecture Hall XI)

Chair: Stefan Gunnarsson Chair: Matthias Kaiser Chair: Kate Millar Chair: Helena Röcklinsberg

11.00–11.25 B Bovenkerk & F Meijboom: Beneath the Surface: killing of fish as a moral problem

D Buergelt, I Christoph-Schulz, D Weible, P Salamon & K Zander: Impacts of sustainability labels on consumers’ purchasing decisions for fish

K L Weich & H Grimm: VETHICS: professional ethics for veterinary officers

M Gjerris & H Saxe: The choice that disappeared: on the complexity of being a political consumer

11.30–11.55 C P G Driessen: In awe of fish? Exploring animal ethics for non-cuddly species

G Kallio: Food for good? Social movement organizations making sustainable markets for ‘good food’

T Dich, T Hansen & P Sandøe: Assessment of ethical reasoning of 1st year veterinary students by using the ethical reasoning tool

S Meisch: Green food consumption: whose responsibility?

12.00–13.30 Lunch at Restaurant Galejan

13.30–15.30 Animal philosophy Session 6 (Lecture Hall VIII)

Market and policy Session 1 (Hall I)

Labeling and market forces Session 2 (Lecture Hall IV)

Citizenship and consumers Session 4 (Lecture Hall XI)

Chair: Franck Meijboom Chair: Cilla Mark-Herbert Chair: Lotta Berg Chair: Thomas Potthast

13.30–13.55 R Anthony, M Gjerris & H Röcklinsberg: Fish welfare, environment and food security: a pragmatist virtue ethics approach

Z H Robaey: Who owns hazard? The role of ownership in the GM social experiment

F Vanhonacker, E J Van Loo, X Gellynck & W Verbeke: The relevance of sustainability for the consumer in a food context: a segmentation analysis

K Grill: Shaping the context and content of food choices

Thursday 12th September 2013

14.00–14.25 J L Harfeld: Animal welfare, consumer behaviour, and public policy

J P Rotter, P E Airike & C Mark-Herbert: Category management in Swedish food retail: challenges in ethical sourcing

F Lundmark, C Berg & H Röcklinsberg: ‘Unnecessary suffering’ as a concept in animal welfare legislation and standards

S Aerts: The consumer does not exist: overcoming the citizen/consumer paradox by shifting focus

14.30–14.55 M Huth: The “secret“ of killing animals

J Jönsson, T Wätthammar & C Mark-Herbert: Consumer perspectives on ethics in garment consumption: Perceptions of purchases and disposal

F Pirscher: Animal Welfare Labelling: is the market the right governance structure to meet people's moral concerns?

A Kallhoff: Consumer citizenship: a self-contradictory concept?

15.00–15.25 K Keerus, M Gjerris & H Röcklinsberg: More than harm: a critical analysis of the harm principle in Regan’s thinking

D S Calley: The international regulation of the food market: precedents and challenges

A El-Wakil: Why pure proceduralism doesn’t remove the individual responsibility to make right economic judgments

J Karlsson: The impossibility of an ethical consumer

15.30–16.00 Coffee/tea break

16.00–17.00 Keynote presentation 2 (Plenary Hall X)

Philip Cafaro: The Virtue of Simplicity

Chair: Per Sandin

17.00–18.00 DACH workshop (Hall I) NordNafe workshop (Seminar room 1) EurSafe Newsletter workshop (Seminar room 2)

18.00 Reception at Gustavianum, welcome address form City of Uppsala by City council member Stefan Hanna

Friday 13th September 2013

9.00–10.00 Keynote presentation 3 (Plenary Hall X)

Dorothea Kleine: Placing and scaling ethical choices: ethical consumption and ethical public procurement

Chair: Helena Röcklinsberg

10.00–10.30 Coffee/tea break

10.30–12.00 Animal philosophy Session 6 (Lecture Hall VIII)

Food philosophy Session 8 (Hall II)

Animal husbandry and innovative meat production Session 5 (Hall I)

Citizenship and consumers Session 4 (Lecture Hall XI)

Community and culture Session 12 (Lecture Hall IV)

Chair: Stef Aerts Chair: Payam Moula Chair: Stefan Gunnarsson Chair: Jan Hultgren Chair: Matthias Kaiser

10.30–10.55 S Camenzind: Dignity of Creature: Beyond suffering and further

K Nordström & J Goossens: Personalized nutrition and social justice. Ethical considerations within four future scenarios from the perspective of Nussbaum’s capabilities approach

S Silva, M Magalhães-Sant’Ana, J Borlido Santos & I A S Olsson: Comfort, health and production: Portuguese dairy farmers talk about animal welfare

R Schleenbecker & U Hamm: Getting the message across: the importance of information in Fair Trade marketing marketing

D M Bruce: Contextualising food policy to the citizen: religions as a paradigm

11.00–11.25 B K Myskja: The moral status of animals - a relational approach

F Meijboom: Individual animal welfare and a collective dimension of sustainability: the role of animal welfare in developments towards sustainable food production and consumption

A Wallenbeck, T Ahlman, L Rydhmer & H Röcklinsberg: Farmers’ views on the impact of breeding traits on profitability, animal welfare and environment

S Borkfelt, S V Kondrup & M Gjerris: Closer to nature? The ethics of ‘green’ representations in animal product

D Beck, M Ivanovic, I Werkheiser & S Noll: Panel: The ethics of consuming: community, agency, and participation in global food systems

Friday 13th September 2013

11.30–11.55 C N Van Der Weele: Meat and the benefits of ambivalence

H Siipi: Ethics of authenticity of food: analogies from biodiversity protection

B A Ventura, M A G von Keyserlingk & D M Weary: The welfare of dairy cattle: perspectives of industry stakeholders

C L Mah, B Cook, S Hoang & E Taylor: Towards a broader understanding of citizenship in policy debate on food advertising to children

D Beck, M Ivanovic, I Werkheiser & S Noll: Panel: The ethics of consuming, cont.

12.00–13.30 Lunch at Restaurant Galejan

13.30–15.00 Animal welfare Session 10

(Lecture Hall VIII)

Technology, society and ethics Session 9 (Hall II)

Animal husbandry and innovative meat production Session 5 ( Hall I)

Market and policy Session 1 (Lecture Hall XI)

Workshop on teaching (Lecture Hall IV)

Chair: Bo Algers Chair: Karin Edvardsson Björnberg

Chair: Anna Olsson Chair: Anne Algers Chair: Henrik Lerner

13.30–13.55 C Maciel & B Bock: Ethical concerns beyond the border: how European animal welfare policies reach Brazil

C A Timmerman: Justifying pro-poor innovation in the life sciences: a brief overview of the ethical landscape

L Ursin: Gnawing doubt: eating animals and the promise of cultured meat

M Kaiser: Precaution or prudent vigilance as guiding the path to global food security?

K Millar: Teaching ethics

14.00–14.25 L Voget Kleschin & M Langanke: Reasoning rejection of factory farming – the importance of aesthetic and eudaimonistic arguments

A H Kiran: Scaling values, a perspective from philosophy of technology

M Korthals: Innovation and recognition of food and farming styles

A J K Pols: Certification for sustainable biofuels

K Millar: Teaching ethics, cont.

14.30–14.55 G Van Wieren: Hunting for food in environmental ethics

V Beekman & H Dagevos: The knowledge society as pleonasm - Towards mobilisation of social intelligence in the agricultural and food domain

D M De Goede, J Erens, E Kapsomenou & M Peters: Large scale insect rearing and animal welfare

L Voget Kleschin: Employing the Capability Approach in assigning responsibility for sustainable development

Friday 13th September 2013

15.00–16.00 Pauster session (poster presentations and coffee/tea break) (Ground floor)

16.00–17.30 Market and policy Session 6

(Hall II)

Food in the public sphere Session 6 (Hall I)

Workshop / Panel on consumer responsibility (Plenary Hall X)

Chair: Anne-Marie Neetesson Chair: Leire Escajedo Chair: Per Sandin

16.00–16.25 J S Buurma & V Beekman: Crop protection in horticulture; how to rescue growers from punishment for shortfall of pesticides

M Stein: Public sector food procurement in UK local authorities: ethics and sustainability

B Brülde & J Sandberg: "My consumption makes no difference": individual responsibility for collective problems Discussants: Mickey Gjerris, Paul B. Thompson, and Lieske Voget-Kleschin

16.30–16.55 A Blanchard: ‘Oil versus fish’ in northern Norway : perspectives of the market, the citizen and the law

M Döring & S Stirn: The scientifically motivated regulation of food: a discursive analysis of the EU health claims regulation on omega-3 fatty acids

B Brülde & J Sandberg: cont.

17.00–17.25

V Sodano & F Verneau: Obesity and costs of low energy density foods: a case for state against consumer responsibility

B Brülde & J Sandberg: cont.

19.30 Congress dinner at the Garden of Linneaus (Linnéträdgården), Svartbäcksgatan 27, and later at adjacent Hotel Linné

Saturday 14th September 2013

9.00–10.00 Keynote presentation 4 (Plenary Hall X)

Soraj Hongladarom: Intellectual property rights and food security: the role of external relations

Chair: Kate Millar

10.00–10.30 Coffee/tea break

10.30–12.00 Food in the public sphere Session 11 (Hall I)

Animal welfare Session 10 (Lecture Hall VIII)

Sustainable aquaculture Session 7 (Hall II)

Legal issues in food production and consumption Session 3 (Lecture Hall XI)

Workshop on labeling (Lecture Hall IV)

Chair: Anne Algers Chair: Anna Wallenbeck Chair: Thomas Potthast Chair: Leire Escajedo Chair: Simon Meish

10.30–10.55 B Mikkelsen: Can healthy eating at school be considered a human right?

D Weible, I B Christoph-Schulz, P Salamon: Does the society perceive its own responsibility for modern pig production?

M E Lam: Comparing the ethics of capture fisheries and aquaculture

W W Huzing Edinger: The gullible consumer in EU food law

J Bakker, M Onwezen & V Beekman: Motivation in sustainability labeling

11.00–11.25 M M Mikkola: Potential of transformative consumer learning for governance for animal welfare by public catering?

J Gutjahr: The reintegration of animals and slaughter into discourses of meat eating

S Bremer, A S Haugen & M Kaiser: Whose sustainability counts? Engaging debates on the sustainability of Bangladeshi shrimp

F Dias Simões: Ethics and consumerism: legal promotion of ethical consumption?

J Bakker, M Onwezen, & V Beekman: Motivation in sustainability labeling, cont.

11.30–11.55 N Lindström & H Röcklinsberg: School meals – bridging the gap between citizen expectations, procurement skills and legislation

H Lerner & B Algers: Tail docking in the EU – a case of routine violation of an EU Directive

S Montaldo: Local foods, food quality and agricultural soil consumption: new challenges for the European Union consumption: new challenges for the European Union

12.00–13.00 Thank you and EurSafe General Assembly (Plenary Hall X) Lunch package to go

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