Tag: ethics

Organic food company steps forward with $25k to “protect the sacred natural order for future generations” (and their business)

Nutiva® Pledges $25,000 to CFS for Challenging USDA’s Approval of Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Organic food brand Nutiva® is pledging $25,000 in support of the Center for Food Safety’s effort to halt Monsanto’s spring planting of GMO alfalfa crops. “Nutiva is concerned about the impact that genetically modified organisms are having on our natural world…”Oxnard,…

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Gilles-Eric Séralini concerned that practical classes erode the time spent imparting knowledge of biology.

The genetic modification of bacteria in French science classes has sparked concern.Nature Magazine News 31 January 2011 A row has broken out in France over whether 15- and 16-year-olds should be allowed to create transgenic Escherichia coli bacteria in the classroom. Practical experiments in which students learn how to use plasmids to alter the DNA…

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When Being Good Frees Us to Be Bad

How do individuals face the ethical uncertainties of social life? When under the threat that their next action might be (or appear to be) morally dubious, individuals can derive conﬁdence from their past moral behavior, such that an impeccable track record increases their propensity to engage in otherwise suspect actions. Such moral self-licensing (Monin & Miller, 2001) occurs when…

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2.4 billion extra people, no more land: Era of Cheap food over?

2.4 billion extra people, no more land: how will we feed the world in 2050?Steve Connor reveals how scientists propose a major policy shift to tackle one of the great challenges of the 21st century The Independent, UKSaturday, 22 January 2011 The finite resources of the Earth will be be stretched as never before in…

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The Bustamante Affaire reaches Nature magazine

Peruvian Biologist’s Defamation Conviction Overturned– Lucas Laursen, Nature, January 12, 2011A defamation case that hinges on a dispute over the presence of genetic modification in Peruvian maize crops, and that has attracted international attention, has moved back to square one – with a twist.Biologist Ernesto Bustamante Donayre was last April found guilty of defamation –…

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Science lives on in Peru: vindication of Ernesto Bustamante in Peru celebrated with the 2001st blog posting at GMO Pundit

Here at GMO Pundit we are taking the opportunity celebrate 2000 blog posts with the fantastic news that a legal victory has been obtained in Peru that is also a victory for those who value their own personal freedom to express scientific criticism. The scientific method is dead if we do not give full licence…

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Growing of transgenic crops can contribute in all three traditional pillars of sustainability — economic, environmental and social.

Review article The role of transgenic crops in sustainable development Julian Raymond Park, Ian McFarlane, Richard Hartley Phipps and Graziano Ceddia School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK Summary The concept of sustainable development forms the basis for a wide variety of international and national policy making. World population…

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An Independent take on the Pope’s GM position

Is the Catholic Church in favour of GM crops? Lab Notes By Steve Connor Tuesday, 14 December 2010 Is the Vatican close to endorsing the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in order to feed the world’s growing population? Could it be that the Catholic Church is about to take a moral position on GM…

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Vedic businesses use clever advertising to implant beliefs about “Natural Law” in consumers psyches

Over at ” Consider Icarus…” Cami Ryan had posted this on: Genetic ID and its questionable connections… By gathering information and data points through a review of publically available online information (journal articles and web pages), I generated a network on Genetic ID and the firm’s connections to a complexity of actors and institutions. The…

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Food security discussed at Vatican conference

Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development– Proceedings of a Study Week invited by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, May 15-19, 2009A joint publication of the invited participants of the Study Week as an open source Volume of NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY of Elsevier and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Food security…

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