Keles Sukru, Kurtoğlu Ayşe, Köksal Özdal, Yalım Neyyire Yasemin, Taluğ Cemal
Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Tıp Tarihi ve Etik Anabilim Dalı, Farabi Caddesi, No.66, 61080 Ortahisar, Trabzon, Turkey.
J Agric Environ Ethics. 2021;34(2):10. doi: 10.1007/s10806-021-09847-2. Epub 2021 Mar 27.
In Turkey, the numbers of studies that deal with agriculture and food as a system and process, and that address the issue with an integrated approach are very limited. Besides, there is no empirical study available in the national literature in which agricultural and food system has been analyzed within the framework of applied ethics. The present study aims to investigate the characteristics of food and agricultural engineers and veterinary physicians in terms of their tendency to carry out ethical evaluations when faced with issues falling under the field of agriculture and food ethics, and detect their capacity to identify ethical problems.A cross-sectional survey was employed in this study. Descriptive statistics like percentages and frequencies based on the scores from the scale were used. Data were collected via survey method from three occupational groups, namely, food and agricultural engineers and veterinary physicians working in 12 regions of Turkey, and analyzed using chi-square and score test. A total of 865 professionals from 55 different cities participated in the study. Data concerning participants' level of ethics awareness regarding the identification and evaluation of ethical problems in the fields of food and agriculture were obtained. While the participating professionals could easily detect the problems in food and agriculture system that carried no ethical dilemma, they had difficulty in identifying issues that involved ethical dilemmas. It was also revealed that there was a significant difference between professionals in terms of their perception of ethical problems, demonstrating the need for a comprehensive ethics education to be imparted during and after under-graduate.
在土耳其，将农业和食品作为一个系统和过程来研究，并采用综合方法处理该问题的研究数量非常有限。此外，国内文献中没有关于在应用伦理学框架内分析农业和食品系统的实证研究。本研究旨在调查食品和农业工程师以及兽医在面对农业和食品伦理领域的问题时进行伦理评估的倾向特征，并检测他们识别伦理问题的能力。本研究采用横断面调查。使用基于量表得分的百分比和频率等描述性统计方法。通过调查方法从三个职业群体收集数据，这三个职业群体分别是在土耳其12个地区工作的食品和农业工程师以及兽医，并使用卡方检验和得分检验进行分析。共有来自55个不同城市的865名专业人员参与了该研究。获得了有关参与者对食品和农业领域伦理问题识别和评估的伦理意识水平的数据。虽然参与研究的专业人员能够轻松检测出食品和农业系统中不存在伦理困境的问题，但他们在识别涉及伦理困境的问题时存在困难。研究还表明，专业人员在对伦理问题的认知方面存在显著差异，这表明需要在本科期间及之后开展全面的伦理教育。
