Why aquatic animals matter for food justice

Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy and Food, Justice, and Animals defend new frameworks for food justice. We examine how these frameworks apply to aquatic animals and whether these frameworks are plausible in light of these implications. We consider a variety of questions, including questions about the global health and environmental impacts of aquaculture and industrial fishing, about whether aquatic animals can be stakeholders or participants in public reason frameworks, about which aquatic animals should have rights, and about which rights aquatic animals should have. Without seeking to answer all these questions, we suggest that these frameworks need to be improved to properly protect aquatic animals, given how numerous, diverse, and neglected these animals are.