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Ethical Perspectives on Food Morality: Challenges, Dilemmas and Constructs

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• Diosey Ramon Lugo-Morin   ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2689-7752 1  

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This study examines the concept of food morality and explores its implications for today's world. The analysis carried out allowed us to develop a theoretical construct that approaches food morality from a holistic and interconnected perspective, providing us with a new way of understanding it. This new perspective on food morality will serve as an overarching framework for guiding individual choices, public policy making, and transformative actions needed to address the complex challenges facing food systems in the modern world. The theoretical approach used in this study focuses on the elements that shape food morality, considering its different contexts. This theoretical approach provides a solid basis for proposing a new food morality.

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