The course aims to provide some fundamental elements of orientation in the field of food ethics. The course will mainly focus on problematic and significant topics for future operators in the field of food technology.

Students will be invited to confront the moral dilemmas linked to the new acquisitions of scientific research and with the transformations that this transformation entails in the relationship between ethics and nutrition and between science and society. The comparison will also take place through the examination of simulated, narrated, imaginary or real situations, and examples of concrete cases taken from current events.

Synthetic program:

- elements of food history
- elements of ethics
- natural/artificial
- cultural transformations
- The relationship between science and society

M. Montanari (a cura di), Cucina politica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021
Further information will be provided during the course