AMA Journal of Ethics^®

This issue questions how health professionals should respond to ethical challenges that meat consumption creates in their practices, professions, and organizations.

The AMA Code and Principles provide guidance on how to educate and counsel patients about meat consumption and about their advocacy roles in reducing meat production.

This collection visualizes the health sector’s climate change contributions, which will ultimately harm us all.

Sustainable food services are key dimensions of health care organizations’ civic and stewardship responsibilities to individuals and communities.

Nutrition care processes account for a person’s biological sex characteristics but do not adequately address their gender.

When physicians fail to model behaviors they advocate for others, trust is eroded. 

There are 5 things every clinician should know about why environmental threats matter to human and nonhuman animals’ health.

The complex nature of clinician governors’ roles and responsibilities in the best of times and during crises is the topic of discussion in this month’s issue.

This summary of guidance on physicians’ interactions with governments considers their nonclinical roles, political actions, and communications.

Misinformation is an urgent new problem, so health professions communities need solutions as much as they need to be wary of ethical pitfalls of rushed interventions.