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5 Rel.: Beyond Anthropocentrism 7 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/relations5 and id is 1 raw text is: Summer School Cibo: la vita condivisa Editorial Paola Fossati Assistant Professor, University of Milan DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2017-001-foss paola.fossati@unimi.it Food has always had a heavy influence on human biological and cultural evolution. Actually, a careful look reveals that in shaping food habits, nutritional factors have played a limited role over time. Food has moved beyond mere sustenance and turned into symbol and meaningful part of community-based traditions. It has become a vehicle for values and beliefs, which, in turn, have built up our perception of food and eating. Even now, culture directly affects the choices of consumers and has an impact on their attitudes towards food products. Animal source foods have always been a constituent of human diets. Animal farming can be seen as involved in a co- evolutionary process, in so far over thousands of years has affected biology, behaviour, and the quality of life of both humans and (domestic) animals. Problematizing food choices and relating them to the power humans exert on domestic animals urges us to focus on the way humans treat other living beings. In this perspective, thinking of food of animal origin helps to rethink humans-animals relations. Objections against animal agriculture often refer to the disrespect for animals' life, integrity and welfare, especially in current intensive production systems. Exploitation of animals and associated fac- tors in farming for foodstuffs and for industrial and trade purposes cannot be separated from matters of ethics and self-discipline. The ethical con- cerns arising from current food production practices unavoidably involve the ethics of keeping animals for this purpose. Most consumers completely ignore how farm animals are raised in contemporary agriculture. Despite this, the attitude of EU citizens towards animal welfare is currently docu- mented (Eurobarometer Surveys). Consumers show a considerable interest in getting more and clearer information about animal husbandry and about what is behind the products they find on the market shelves. Indeed, in the EU policy ethics has been framed as an essential component of European Relations -5.1 - June 2017 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 7

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