Honors College announces annual Rezendes Ethics Essay Competition winner, finalists
The Honors College at the University of Maine announced the winner and finalists of the 2020 John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition.
The competition invites undergraduate students to submit an 8- to 10-page essay that focuses on ethics, broadly construed. This year’s theme was “ethics and food systems.”
Patrick Hurley won with his essay titled “Zombie Fields: Ethical Concerns of Pollination in Industrial Agriculture.” The finalists were Dominique DiSpirito, who wrote “The Problem with Snap Judgements: A Call for Food Security Policy Based in Vulnerability-Care Ethics,” and Kate Macolini, who wrote “Atoning for Gluttony: Ethical Incentives to Disenabling Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).”