GM Food Safety
Question: I must get results from the news.
Answer: I would say totally ethically wrong for animals-the outcome is their use for food, not producing a naturally living animal, or helping the animal. However, it seems to me the major ethical concern for agriculture (other than the actual concern of contaminating natural strains
Egenis Workshop by Professor Paul Thompson, Professor of Philosophy and of Zoology at the University of Toronto on 10 February 2012 bit.ly There ...
Egenis Workshop by Professor Paul Thompson, Professor of Philosophy and of Zoology at the University of Toronto on 10 February 2012 bit.ly ...
There is a lot at stake if Prop 37 passes, it would require labeling of genetically modified fresh and processed foods sold in California by July 2014. If passed it could be a tippig point for other states to pass similar laws.
The High Plains Journal , a Midwestern agricultural paper, reports that Monsanto has committed $7.1 million toward stopping the measure, and another $2 million was thrown in each by BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow Agrosciences and E.I DuPont de Nemours & Co (DuPont). Pepsico, Nestle USA, Coca-Cola North America, Conagra Foods and Syngenta Corporation each contributed seven-figure contributions to stop the measure.
The political might behind each of these companies is fierce, still supporters say this last trick goes too far. “The Justice Department should investigate this fraudulent dirty trick perpetrated by the No on 37 campaign,” said Gary Ruskin, campaign manager of California Right to Know Yes on 37. “They are running a campaign of lies, deceit and trickery, and some of it may be criminal.
These concerns are based on the doubts about the technology, its potentiality, newness and applicability to all life forms. The people in favour of technology think that genetic modification provides a great opportunity for solving hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in the world since it can be made for all environmental conditions and help in increasing quantity and quality of food. At the same time, there are fears raised about the safety of the food in eating and also risks to one’s health since it is considered as a new technology and people fear that some genes will be transmitted to them. Also many people think genetic engineering is unnatural and call it as Franken foods. However, it is not possible to differentiate GM food from other conventionally grown foods since both look the same, may even taste the same, unless it is mentioned on the labels of the packets....
Ecology and the Environment Fall 2011
WIM Eliana Rodriguez
Blog Assignment # 6: Putting Ecology in Your Environment
Title: The Ecology of Genetically Modified Foods
Introduction:
Genetically modified foods raise various issues within the grounds of technology, society, science, ethics, economics, politics, and the environment. With that said the reason for which genetically modified (GM) foods raise such issues is because it involves the manipulation of DNA. Humans have been “exploiting” the fact that genes alter everyday through natural mutation and recombination, thus, creating new biological variations. For years, humans have been rearranging genes—either through systematic methods, crossing, and/or artificial selection in order to create genetic combinations that naturally would not have occurred.
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