Public Health and Agricultural Biotechnology: A Review of the Legal, Ethical, and Scientific Controversies Presented by Genetically Altered FoodsUniversal-Publishers, 2000 - 200 pages Genetically modified foods present numerous ethical, environmental, health and legal challenges. This report synthesizes information from many websites, scientific journals, newspapers and books that discuss the controversy surrounding genetically modified foods. The author has attempted to show that although the future applications of agrobiotechnology appear promising, the ways in which it is currently being used and regulated should be evaluated with a healthy degree of skepticism. |
Contents
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C | 56 |
D | 64 |
Insect resistance | 93 |
Genetically altered crops and human health | 113 |
Viruses and | 129 |
Concluding comments on the science of | 135 |
B The Current US Approach 141151 | 141 |
The European Union Approach152156 | 152 |
The future of | 158 |
Tables | 184 |
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Popular passages
Page 79 - Inventions which concern plants or animals shall be patentable if the technical feasibility of the invention is not confined to a particular plant or animal variety.
Page 170 - Haq TA, Mason HS, Clements JD, Arntzen CJ. Oral immunization with a recombinant bacterial antigen produced in transgenic plants. Science 1995;268:714-716.
Page 49 - Recombinant DNA technology faces our society with problems unprecedented not only in the history of science, but of life on the Earth. It places in human hands the capacity to redesign living organisms, the products of some three billion years of evolution.
Page 69 - We do not believe that such companies or gene technologies will help our farmers to produce the food that is needed in the 21st century...
Page 52 - The duty is a difficult one to perform, but we can all at least avoid complacency, be conscious that what is is not the same as what ought to be, and strive in the knowledge that the judgment of future generations will depend on our success or failure. We have succeeded to a mortgaged fund of political ideas, but let us not hand on a ruinous inheritance.
Page 79 - ... to preserve its intrinsic values ... the doctrine of trust in legal parlance is synonymous to what we are talking about theologically or religiously when we think about the relationship of the creation to humanity. The JudeoChristian view says that the creation is, in essence, held in trust; there are limitations on what we can do. We have a responsibility to see that its integrity is preserved.
Page 120 - 'l believe in the technology. But it is too new for us to be absolutely sure that what we are doing is right. But l can say from my experience if anyone dares to say anything even slightly contraindicative, they are vilified and totally destroyed".
Page 55 - Ultimately, the issue is not risk, but power; the power to impose risks on the many for the benefit of the few
Page 69 - On the contrary, we think it will destroy the diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems that our farmers have developed for millennia and that it will undermine our capacity to feed ourselves.
Page 33 - functional' if it contains "a food component (whether a nutrient or not) which affects one or more targeted functions in the body in a positive way".
References to this book
Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods Robert Eugene Evenson,V. Santaniello Limited preview - 2004 |