Research On Moral Construction Of Food Safety In Contemporary China

“The nation regards the people as its god while the people regard food as their god. If we can pay more attention to the people’s food, that’s good enough.” Food safety is an important livelihood issues, Chinese communist party and government pay more attention to it, the people particularly concerned about it. In contemporary China, rely on the law, regulation and technology can not completely solve the problem of food safety. Man as a moral being, need for moral reflection on food safety issues, strengthen moral governance for food safety issues, moral defense for food safety.Food safety morality, is food stakeholders(food production operators, government, consumers and media) behavior fact objective law and the norm of what should to do. Food safety moral construction, is moral construction of the food safety field, is the morality as the main means and ways, to manage the food safety problem, in order to achieve food safety in the area of moral rationality of good order. Food safety morality and food safety laws are related and distinct, food safety morality is an important auxiliary strength for food safety governance. Food safety morality can make food stakeholders identification on food safety morality and laws from heteronomy to self-discipline, forming food stakeholders’ conscience, this is to ensure awareness of food safety, the food stakeholders from the heart to comply with food safety morality and laws.Contemporary Chinese food safety moral construction, need to learn wisdom from the Chinese ancient society food safety moral construction. In the economic perspective, moral, honest, genuine goods at a fair price, treat each other politeness as moral scale adjust the relationship between operators and consumers. In the political perspective, the people regard food as their god political view, the government supervision, the supervision of all trades reflect a strong morality significance.Chinese traditional diet culture contains the morality, which is very rich, “harmonious”, “genty”, “frugal ” style are most prominent.Contemporary Chinese food safety moral construction, need to learn from developed country. In USA, scientific and complete legal is a umbrella of morality formation, prevention and seamless supervision make amoral person is no way in., voluntary qualified suppliers is the moral demands of food enterprises. In Japan, the safety of consumers is the responsibility of government regulation, consumer confidence is the enterprise survival basis, moral education of food safety morality is to let the food safety ideas win support among the people. In EU, health first principle, respect the choice principle, precautionary principle is regarded as the basic principles of food safety moral construction, for the respect of consumers health rights and choice, treatment of genetically modified food is cautious.In contemporary China, food safety incident clearly reflects the food stakeholders lack of moral responsibility, food stakeholders give too much emphasis on interests.This damage the consumers’ health and safety, has a negative impact on the full range of the Chinese economic, political and social development. In the background of social transformation, negative culture erosion, negative influence of interest supremacy, the regulatory system is not perfect, the lagging construction of credit system, excessive tolerance of amoral behavior is the main reason causing the dilemma of food safety morality.In contemporary China, food safety moral construction is the requirement of practice and the call of the times. Food safety itself contains the life value recognition, in establishing the food safety system and food safety management, are indispensable moral support, this is food stakeholders, especially the food production operators and the government should have moral cognition. Food safety express the individual value and the social public interests. To ensure food safety, need food stakeholders’ spirit support, food stakeholders need in moral condition, put the moral behavior in the food supply, supervision, consumption and dissemination.In contemporary China, food safety moral dilemma is very serious, highlights the urgency of the food safety moral construction. Food safety moral construction is a complicated system engineering, need all food stakeholders participation and efforts. Food production operators are the main force in the food safety moral construction, government is food safety moral construction’s guardian, consumers are food safety moral construction’s promoters, media is food safety moral construction’s uncrowned king. Food production operators, government, consumers and media format a joint force in food safety moral construction, can effectively promote the food safety problems and the construction of socialist morality.