LibGuides: VCE Food Studies: Food ethics

Treatment of Animals - General resources

Animal Welfare in Australia - Dept. of Agriculture, Water & the Environment (Cth)
Provides information on the codes and standards that regulate animal production and welfare for each species or enterprise.
Animal Welfare for Livestock Producers - Agriculture Victoria
Information on animal welfare, the implications of poor animal welfare and how animal welfare is regulated in Victoria. Links to industry specific websites are also included for further reference.
Public welfare discussions and outlooks in Australia (journal article) - Animal Frontiers
How community attitudes and behaviours impact livestock industries and how livestock industries must respond to changing community values.

Live Sheep Exports Exposed (2018, 60 Mintues segment) (20 mins.)

Live Animal Trade Export – Dept of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (Cth)
Information on the live export industry and how it is regulated through legislation and standards. Links to the Australian Standards for the Export of Livestock and the Review of the Standards published in April 2020 are also available from this website.
Live Export: A Chronology – Parliamentary Library publication (Cth)
A timeline of the major incidents, reviews and regulatory reforms which have occurred throughout the history of the Australian live export trade, with commentary on animal welfare standards and oversight, supply chain concerns, trade and the framework

Live Export Cloud: uncertainty clouds otherwise bright outlook for sheep industry (2019, Landline segment) (13 mins.)

What would Australia look like without live exports? – ABC Rural News
In-depth article looks at the industry and the overseas demand it meets, what the alternatives could be and the effect on animal welfare, primary producers, pricing and trade
Live Export articles – RSPCA
Links to a series of articles about animal welfare in the export trade, and the RSPCA’s ethical campaign against live export

The Drum: Food Security, Ethical Eating, and Food and Nutrition (2019, The Drum special episode) (57 mins).

Can we ever really eat ethically?

Fair trade (article) from: Achieving Sustainability - Visions, Principles and Practices (V1) by Macmillan Reference USA
Call Number: Gale eBook
ISBN: 9780028662015
Publication Date: 2014
Reference article which describes the fair Trade movement, its history, purpose and challenges.
Fair trade practices (article) from: Gale Business Insights Handbooks of Global Business Laws by Gale
Call Number: Gale eBook
ISBN: 9781414499260
Publication Date: 2013
History, principles, certification, practice and criticisms of fair trade as a global market movement

Fairtrade – website of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand
Information about the Fairtrade concept and available products, and reports including as annual reports, sustainability reports and submissions to parliamentary inquiries.
Food security: how Fairtrade helps level the playing field for small producers (article) – The Conversation
Is Fairtrade finished? (article) – The Guardian
Explains how major companies are departing Fairtrade to create their own versions and whether this weakens the effectiveness of fair trade
The problem with fair trade coffee (research article) – Stanford Social Innovation Review
Uses coffee as an example of limitations of the model of fair trade for food production. Also includes a link to a direct counterpart to this article

Fair trade in cocoa from the Ivory Coast. Documentary, 2015 (27 mins.).

Tipping the Scales (2018, Four Corners documentary) (45 mins.).

Sugar, politics and what's making people fat, and the power of Big Sugar companies.

Sugar tax (article) from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets by Margaret Alic (author) ; Diedre Hiam (editor)
Call Number: Gale eBook
ISBN: 9781410388278
Publication Date: 2018
Summarises the purpose of sugar taxes, their application, opposition, results and alternatives.

Australian Beverages Council website
The Initiatives, Advocacy and Information, and Media Centre sections of this website, present a range of policy and information articles and reports about the Council’s work to reduce sugar content in products and how consumption and/or product preferences by consumers has changed.
Australian Health Survey: Consumption of added sugars, 2011-12 – Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016
Key statistical findings from the survey
The case for a health Levy on sugary drinks (policy brief) - Obesity Policy Coalition
See also another OPC publication below which places the case for a tax in the wider context of an overall approach to addressing the obesity problem:
A comprehensive policy program to reduce consumption of sugary drinks in Australia
Obesity epidemic in Australia Final Report – Senate Committee, Parliament of Australia
Particular reference to Chapter 6 – Tax on sugary drinks which recommends a tax, and to the two Dissenting Reports in which the recommendation is not supported.

Should Australia tax sweetened beverages? - Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health
Article reviews initiatives by governments elsewhere in the world to tax sugar, their effectiveness and whether a similar tax should be applied in Australia

Sustainability (food production and diets) - The Nutrition Source, Harvard
Information on the role of sustainable food systems and diets based on these systems in achieving a global sustainable food future.
Food Planet Health Summary Report - EAT-Lancet Commission
EAT is a global non-profit organisation aiming for a food system transformation - a fair and sustainable global food system for health people and planet.
Marketing obesity? Junk food, advertising and kids - Parliamentary Library publication (Cth)
Paper looks at the influence of food marketing on children and consumption, industry responses, policy approaches and interventions.
[Food] Marketing to Children - Obesity Evidence Hub
A series of five articles addressing the impact of food marketing on children, how such marketing is regulated in Australia, its challenges and policy briefs for change. Note: Use to Marketing to Children filter on the Prevention page to access these articles quickly.