Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective
In: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Ser. v.32
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Who Should Read this Book? -- The Overall Plan -- The Revised Edition -- Some Disclosures -- References -- Contents -- 1 Biotechnology in the Context of Agriculture and Food: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Puzzle of Heredity -- 1.3 Altering the Genome -- 1.4 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology -- 1.5 Recent Developments -- 1.6 What's in a Name? -- 1.7 The Controversy in Ethical Perspective -- 1.8 Conclusion: Beyond Risk and Back Again -- References -- 2 The Presumptive Case for Food Biotechnology -- 2.1 Technological Ethics: A Précis -- 2.2 Ethics and Risk -- 2.3 The Risk-Based Approach -- 2.4 The Logic of the Presumptive Case -- 2.5 The Social Dimension of the Presumptive Case -- 2.6 Making the Case for Biotechnology Badly -- 2.6.1 The Modernist Fallacy -- 2.6.2 The Naturalistic Fallacy -- 2.6.3 The Argument from Ignorance -- 2.6.4 The Argument from Hunger -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Biotechnology, Policy and the Problem of Unintended Consequences: The Case of rBST -- 3.1 What is rBST? Why Does it Matter? -- 3.2 Biotechnology Policy and Philosophy -- 3.3 rBGH: Assessing Unwanted Consequences -- 3.3.1 Food Safety -- 3.3.2 Animal Welfare -- 3.3.3 Environmental Impact -- 3.3.4 Social Consequences -- 3.4 Ethical Disputes, Governance and Consensus Politics -- 3.5 Social Consequences Redux -- 3.6 Learning from rBST -- References -- 4 Food Safety and the Ethics of Consent -- 4.1 The Ethics and Political Theory of Food Safety Regulation -- 4.2 Safety Criteria and Biotechnology -- 4.3 Ethical Gaps in Food Safety Governance -- 4.3.1 Bad Actors -- 4.3.2 Collateral Consequences -- 4.3.3 Social Uncertainty -- 4.4 The Philosophy of Food Safety -- 4.4.1 Classification -- 4.4.2 Purification -- 4.4.3 Optimization -- 4.5 Classification and Purification Versus Risk-Based Optimization.