PHIL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Purgatory, Gene Gun, Fall Of Constantinople
15 Jul 2020
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Moreover, writes cummings, patents awarded for the commercial use of genetic engineering technology are giving agrochemical companies ultimate control over the means and methods of food production. Valuing corporate interests over long-term societal needs, successive. U. s. governments have compromised international food security by giving a number of agrochemical companies a blank check to commercialize genetic technology prematurely, cummings writes. Government and research institutions, including many prestigious and once-independent universities in the united states, have sold out to industry agendas. This has unleashed agricultural genetic engineering into the public sphere before science has validated the techniques being used or evaluated the safety of products being developed. Genetically modified organisms are contaminating natural crops around the world and triggering mounting economic costs as farmers lose markets and organic producers lose their certification, writes claire hope cummings in "trespass: genetic engineering as the final conquest. "
