SOC 2080 Lecture : SOC 2080 Mar.13.docx
15 Mar 2012
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Safe levels for only 100 of 250-300 base chemicals. Synergistic effect is the effect that these pesticides do to the products they are used on. Many consider the organic option [has substantial lower rates of pesticide use] Who else is at risk: farmers and farm workers. Farmers can have higher rates of certain cancers [due to the diff. pesticides they use] Food outside our boarders, produced by farm workers [heavy use of migrant labour] Of ontario have reduced pesticide use between 50-75% in recent years. For l. it"s a differentiation of social from anti-social conduct . The single premise of ethics: the individual is a member of community w/interdependent parts. Change role of homo sapiens from conqueror [anthropocentric view] to plain member of a wider community [ecocentric. The problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to land . Land must become valuable in its own right.
