One health as a normative concept: implications for food safety at the wildlife interface

• Autores: J. Nieuwland, F.L.B. Meijboom
• Localización: Know your food: food ethics and innovation : EurSafe 2015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 28-30 May 2015 / coord. por Diana Elena Dumitras, Ionel Mugurel Jitea, Stef Aerts, 2015, ISBN 978-90-8686-264-1, págs. 132-137
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Starting from the recognition of the interdependence of human, animal, and ecosystem health, the concept of One Health promotes multispecies and integrative approaches to health. While zoonoses (diseases that can be transmitted from non-human animals to human beings) have been a major impetus for the development of One Health, it is the human-animal-ecosystem interface in general that is emphasised. One Health has received little attention from (applied) ethics, despite its clear normative dimension. The aims of the paper are twofold, by showing: (1) the importance of explicating the normative dimension of One Health, and following from this; (2) the need for integrated ethics at the human-animal-ecosystem interface. A holistic understanding of health is presented, together with the acknowledgment of the moral status of animals, to discuss the normative implications of One Health. The discussion will address, in particular, the implications for food safety with respect to wildlife health.