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Vexing Nature?

On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology

By: Gary L. Comstock

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On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology

By: Gary L. Comstock

Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods. Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods manipulated at the molecular level to enhance their value to farmers and consumers. This book is a collection of essays on the ethical dimensions of ag biotech. The essays were written over a dozen years, beginning in 1988. When I began to reflect on the subject, ag biotech was an exotic, untested, technology. Today, in the first year of the millenium, the vast majority of consumers in the United States have taken a bite of the apple. Milk produced by cows injected with a GM protein called recombinant bovine growth hormone (bGH), is found, unlabelled, on grocery shelves throughout the US. In 1999, half of the soybeans and cotton harvested in the US were GM varieties. Billions of dollars of public and private monies are being invested annually in biotech research, and commercial sales now reach into the tens of billions of dollars each year. I Whereas ag biotech once promised to change American agriculture, it now is in the process of doing so.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461513979

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9781461513971

Religious Autobiographies

By: Gary Comstock

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Religious Autobiographies

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This anthology includes autobiographies of both men and women from diverse multicultural contexts. It presents religion as a ''lived experience, '' avoiding an overly theoretical approach. The main goal of the book is to help students acquire the ability to think with empathy about ''the other'' and critically about religion, and to do so while providing a multicultural and gender-balanced set of readings

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0534187803

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9780534187804

Life Science Ethics

By: Gary L. Comstock

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Life Science Ethics

By: Gary L. Comstock

Does nature have intrinsic value? Should we be doing more to save wilderness and ocean ecosystems? What are our duties to future generations of humans? Do animals have rights? This revised edition of "Life Science Ethics" introduces these questions using narrative case studies on genetically modified foods, use of animals in research, nanotechnology, and global climate change, and then explores them in detail using essays written by nationally-recognized experts in the ethics field. Part I introduces ethics, the relationship of religion to ethics, how we assess ethical arguments, and a method ethicists use to reason about ethical theories. Part II demonstrates the relevance of ethical reasoning to the environment, land, farms, food, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, animals in agriculture and research, climate change, and nanotechnology. Part III presents case studies for the topics found in Part II.

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9048187915

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Vexing Nature?

On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology

By: Gary L. Comstock

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On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology

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Vexing Nature?

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