Serving Up Change: A Food Ethics Workshop
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Date
2019-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
This workshop will help nonprofit institutions develop inclusive dialogue with constituents around food values. Partnerships with Extension or public health can facilitate these engagements. At the end of the workshop, individuals will be charged and equipped with leading initiatives in their locale.
Description
Decisions about institutional food procurement take place in several public contexts, including public K-12 schools, public universities, public prisons, and hunger-relief agencies. Food sourcing decisions are often guided by institutional values such as animal welfare, cost, accessibility, convenience, cultural appropriateness, social acceptability, healthfulness, freshness, quality, workers’ rights, localness, and environmental sustainability. At times, these values might not align with the values of constituents of whom these institutions serve. Civic engagement can be used to identify value conflicts, reduce the extent of those conflicts, and find a path to their appropriate resolution. Principled civic engagement practices can also create equitable and inclusive environments in which dialogue can take place. The resulting decisions can benefit in terms of legitimacy, respectfulness, and epistemic soundness. The goal of this workshop is help public school food service directors learn about civic engagement skills so food procurement decisions can become more equitable and just.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Dan Remley, associate professor and OSU Extension field specialist, remley.4@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Glennon Sweeney, senior research associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State; Karima Samadi, OSU Extension program coordinator; Tannya Forcone, graduate research assistant, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Dan Remley, associate professor and OSU Extension field specialist, remley.4@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Glennon Sweeney, senior research associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State; Karima Samadi, OSU Extension program coordinator; Tannya Forcone, graduate research assistant, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State
Keywords
food ethics, food values, civic engagement
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 7 (2019).