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For this study day, part of the “Ethics and Public Health” cycle and organized by the Espace éthique Île-de-France, the Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, and the Center for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics, we will explore the meanings and uses of the expression “eating well.”
This expression carries four layers of ambiguity: it may refer to eating sufficiently, eating with adequate quality, eating healthily according to sanitary norms, or eating in accordance with a certain idea of happiness, morality, and justice (toward producers, animals, natural resources, etc.). This polysemy concentrates the many tensions and ethical dilemmas that human societies — and particularly public health actors — face when seeking to govern food and eating practices, whether by intervening in food-production processes or by shaping ways of eating.
Three key areas of inquiry will structure the day:
- Ethical issues surrounding the food supply — how nutritional norms are defined, what kinds of interventions they inspire, and how these are received across different living environments and eating practices.
- Ethical issues in food production — the advantages and drawbacks of industrialization, and the dilemmas faced by producers when confronted with the use of substances harmful to health.
- Issues of social transformation — what experiences with food assistance reveal, the lived realities of beneficiaries, and the questions raised by the idea of “food security” conceived as a project of collective transformation.
Program and Speakers: ACCUEIL – Journée “Bien manger ? Ethique et santé publique de l’alimentation”
