Is Safe Food Good Food? Reconciling science and ethics with a virtuous approach to food law and policy
Dans le cadre des聽Midi-conf茅rences des jeunes chercheurs, le Regroupement Droit, Changements et Gouvernance est heureux de pr茅senter la conf茅rence de聽Sarah Berger Richardson (candidate au doctorat, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 McGill).
Jaye Ellis, Professeure agr茅g茅e 脿 la Facult茅 de droit de l鈥橴niversit茅 McGill mod猫rera la conf茅rence et Francis Lord (doctorant, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 McGill) fera office de r茅pondant.
The presentation will be in English and the following discussion will be in French.
Speaker
Sarah Berger Richardson is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law at 香蕉视频. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and ethics in food law and policy. Sarah is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and completed her LL.M at Tel Aviv University, where she was a research fellow at the Manna Center in Food Safety and Security. Previously, she was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel and the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal.
Abstract
In recent years, new food safety regulations have been introduced to strengthen consumer confidence in Canada鈥檚 food supply. These regulations draw on scientific and expert knowledge to justify a mode of technocratic governance that obscures ethical debates about what constitutes good food. Food law and policy, however, is not a value-neutral exercise. Determinations of acceptable levels of risk involve value judgments. Food law and policy is characterized by conflict between rival goods.Virtue ethics can guide us through this confrontation in ways that technocratic governance cannot.
