Frans W A Brom
Biographic Data
| ID | 240048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frans W A Brom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frans W A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brom |
| SIGNATURE | BROM F W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University, Ethics of Life Sciences, Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ethicists in Animal Welfare Policy
Animal welfare policy presents complex ethical challenges, requiring the careful balancing of diverse perspectives on issues such as animal housing, transport, and slaughter. As a policy domain shaped by societal pluralism, it demands reasoned debate and informed decision-making. Ethicists contribute to these discussions in different ways, assuming distinct professional roles in public policy-making. Building on Roger Pielke’s The Honest Broker (…
Ethics of Dissent
Moral Convictions and Culling Animals
In this paper the results are presented of a national survey in the Netherlands. The aim was to identify and describe the convictions about animals that people have in Dutch society and the role of these in judgments on the culling of healthy animals during an animal disease epidemic. A total of 1,999 responses was received and two groups of respondents were distinguished: A profile (50% of the respondents) and B profile (28%). The A profile resp…
Ethics and Sustainability
the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) organized its seventh conference, entitled ''Sustainable Food Production and Ethics''. The importance of discussing issues of sustainability with respect to food production is almost evident. Sustainability is on the public agenda and will not easily disappear. It has become an issue widely debated in many countries, and many organizations such as the FAO and retail multinationals ha…
Beyond the Prevention of Harm
European animal disease policy seems to find its justification in a “harm to other” principle. Limiting the freedom of animal keepers—e.g., by culling their animals—is justified by the aim to prevent harm, i.e., the spreading of the disease. The picture, however, is more complicated. Both during the control of outbreaks and in the prevention of notifiable, animal diseases the government is confronted with conflicting claims of stakeholders who an…
Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment
In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy animals in an animal disease epidemic. We used philosophical animal ethics theories to understand the moral basis of FMA convictions. Moreover, these theories provide us with a moral language for comm…
Biotechnology and social learning
Ethical Tools to Support Systematic Public Deliberations about the Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnologies
From Trust to Trustworthiness
The many well-publicized food scandals in recent years have resulted in a general state of vulnerable trust. As a result, building consumer trust has become an important goal in agri-food policy. In their efforts to protect trust in the agricultural and food sector, governments and industries have tended to consider the problem of trust as merely a matter of informing consumers on risks. In this article, we argue that the food sector better addre…
Not All Animals are Equal Differences In Moral Foundations For The Dutch Veterinary Policy On Livestock and Animals In Nature Reservations
To Act or Not to Act? Sheltering Animals from the Wild
The leading question of this article is whether it is acceptable, from a moral point of view, to take wild animals that are ill out of their natural habitat and temporarily bring them under human control with the purpose of curing them. To this end the so-called 'seal debate' was examined. In the Netherlands, seals that are lost or ill are rescued and taken into shelters, where they are cured and afterwards reintroduced into their natural environ…
You Eat What You Are
Brave New Birds
Suppose "chicken" eggs could be produced by quasi-chickens--genetically engineered humps of living chicken-flesh that do nothing but lay eggs. Would there be anything amiss with that? Animal ethicists invoke the notion of animal integrity in order to give intellectual content to the intuition that there would be. On inspection, 'integrity' isn't everything its proponents want it to be. Yet there's enough in it to make reasoned argument possible
Intrinsic Value and Direct Duties
Proposal for a Transatlantic Platform for Consumer Concerns and International Trade
Food, Consumer Concerns, and Trust
From the Guest Editors Food Ethics and Consumer Concerns
The good life of creatures with dignity some comments on the swiss expert opinion
Food, Consumer Concerns, and Trust
Moral Convictions and Culling Animals
In this paper the results are presented of a national survey in the Netherlands. The aim was to identify and describe the convictions about animals that people have in Dutch society and the role of these in judgments on the culling of healthy animals during an animal disease epidemic. A total of 1,999 responses was received and two groups of respondents were distinguished: A profile (50% of the respondents) and B profile (28%). The A profile resp…
From Trust to Trustworthiness
The many well-publicized food scandals in recent years have resulted in a general state of vulnerable trust. As a result, building consumer trust has become an important goal in agri-food policy. In their efforts to protect trust in the agricultural and food sector, governments and industries have tended to consider the problem of trust as merely a matter of informing consumers on risks. In this article, we argue that the food sector better addre…
Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment
In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy animals in an animal disease epidemic. We used philosophical animal ethics theories to understand the moral basis of FMA convictions. Moreover, these theories provide us with a moral language for comm…
Ethics and Sustainability
the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) organized its seventh conference, entitled ''Sustainable Food Production and Ethics''. The importance of discussing issues of sustainability with respect to food production is almost evident. Sustainability is on the public agenda and will not easily disappear. It has become an issue widely debated in many countries, and many organizations such as the FAO and retail multinationals ha…
Ethical Tools to Support Systematic Public Deliberations about the Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnologies
Ethics of Dissent
Intrinsic Value and Direct Duties
Beyond the Prevention of Harm
European animal disease policy seems to find its justification in a “harm to other” principle. Limiting the freedom of animal keepers—e.g., by culling their animals—is justified by the aim to prevent harm, i.e., the spreading of the disease. The picture, however, is more complicated. Both during the control of outbreaks and in the prevention of notifiable, animal diseases the government is confronted with conflicting claims of stakeholders who an…
To Act or Not to Act? Sheltering Animals from the Wild
The leading question of this article is whether it is acceptable, from a moral point of view, to take wild animals that are ill out of their natural habitat and temporarily bring them under human control with the purpose of curing them. To this end the so-called 'seal debate' was examined. In the Netherlands, seals that are lost or ill are rescued and taken into shelters, where they are cured and afterwards reintroduced into their natural environ…
Not All Animals are Equal Differences In Moral Foundations For The Dutch Veterinary Policy On Livestock and Animals In Nature Reservations
You Eat What You Are
From the Guest Editors Food Ethics and Consumer Concerns
The good life of creatures with dignity some comments on the swiss expert opinion
Proposal for a Transatlantic Platform for Consumer Concerns and International Trade
Food, Consumer Concerns, and Trust
From the Guest Editors Food Ethics and Consumer Concerns
The good life of creatures with dignity some comments on the swiss expert opinion
Intrinsic Value and Direct Duties
Brave New Birds
Suppose "chicken" eggs could be produced by quasi-chickens--genetically engineered humps of living chicken-flesh that do nothing but lay eggs. Would there be anything amiss with that? Animal ethicists invoke the notion of animal integrity in order to give intellectual content to the intuition that there would be. On inspection, 'integrity' isn't everything its proponents want it to be. Yet there's enough in it to make reasoned argument possible
To Act or Not to Act? Sheltering Animals from the Wild
The leading question of this article is whether it is acceptable, from a moral point of view, to take wild animals that are ill out of their natural habitat and temporarily bring them under human control with the purpose of curing them. To this end the so-called 'seal debate' was examined. In the Netherlands, seals that are lost or ill are rescued and taken into shelters, where they are cured and afterwards reintroduced into their natural environ…
You Eat What You Are
Not All Animals are Equal Differences In Moral Foundations For The Dutch Veterinary Policy On Livestock and Animals In Nature Reservations
From Trust to Trustworthiness
The many well-publicized food scandals in recent years have resulted in a general state of vulnerable trust. As a result, building consumer trust has become an important goal in agri-food policy. In their efforts to protect trust in the agricultural and food sector, governments and industries have tended to consider the problem of trust as merely a matter of informing consumers on risks. In this article, we argue that the food sector better addre…
Ethical Tools to Support Systematic Public Deliberations about the Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnologies
Beyond the Prevention of Harm
European animal disease policy seems to find its justification in a “harm to other” principle. Limiting the freedom of animal keepers—e.g., by culling their animals—is justified by the aim to prevent harm, i.e., the spreading of the disease. The picture, however, is more complicated. Both during the control of outbreaks and in the prevention of notifiable, animal diseases the government is confronted with conflicting claims of stakeholders who an…
Fundamental Moral Attitudes to Animals and Their Role in Judgment
In this paper, we present and defend the theoretical framework of an empirical model to describe people’s fundamental moral attitudes (FMAs) to animals, the stratification of FMAs in society and the role of FMAs in judgment on the culling of healthy animals in an animal disease epidemic. We used philosophical animal ethics theories to understand the moral basis of FMA convictions. Moreover, these theories provide us with a moral language for comm…
Biotechnology and social learning
Ethics and Sustainability
the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) organized its seventh conference, entitled ''Sustainable Food Production and Ethics''. The importance of discussing issues of sustainability with respect to food production is almost evident. Sustainability is on the public agenda and will not easily disappear. It has become an issue widely debated in many countries, and many organizations such as the FAO and retail multinationals ha…
Moral Convictions and Culling Animals
In this paper the results are presented of a national survey in the Netherlands. The aim was to identify and describe the convictions about animals that people have in Dutch society and the role of these in judgments on the culling of healthy animals during an animal disease epidemic. A total of 1,999 responses was received and two groups of respondents were distinguished: A profile (50% of the respondents) and B profile (28%). The A profile resp…
Ethics of Dissent
Ethicists in Animal Welfare Policy
Animal welfare policy presents complex ethical challenges, requiring the careful balancing of diverse perspectives on issues such as animal housing, transport, and slaughter. As a policy domain shaped by societal pluralism, it demands reasoned debate and informed decision-making. Ethicists contribute to these discussions in different ways, assuming distinct professional roles in public policy-making. Building on Roger Pielke’s The Honest Broker (…
Political science (15 works) · Environmental ethics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)