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In this essay we present three biases that make it difficult to represent farmer voices in a meaningful way. These biases are information bias, individual bias, and short-term bias. We illustrate these biases through two case studies. One is the case of Golden Rice in the Philippines and the...
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In public debate over agricultural biotechnology, at issue hasbeen its self-proclaimed aim of further … professionalethicists. Biotechnology embodies a contentious model of controlover nature and society, yet this issue becomes displaced …
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There is a fundamental divergence of opinion between the EU and the US over how food products derived from genetically modified organisms should be labeled. This has less to do with safety, as moves towards the international harmonization of safety standards continue apace, and rather more to do...
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While the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the spread of genetically engineered (GE) foods has gone largely unnoticed by the majority of Americans, a growing number of vocal civil society groups are opposing the technology and with it the entire conventional system of food...
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The history of the controversy overrecombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) is exploredin terms of the issue of the potential robustness ofa consumption-driven ``new'' politics of food andagriculture. It is noted that while the dominanthistorical traditions in the social sciences haveserved to...
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socioeconomic regulation of agricultural biotechnology in it. The literature on the Protocol has been fairly extensive, but little …
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activists that respond to the scientization of biotechnology politics: (1) using scientific information as a resource; (2 …
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It is important to talk about corporations as a class, about trade agreements, and about government policy; but without examining specific examples of how real corporations actually shape the world to suit their purposes, we stand little chance of understanding the determinative forces behind...
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against biotechnology. Using a civic agriculture perspective, this article explores how local actors in this small county were … able to take on the agri-biotechnology industry. I argue that by localizing the issue, the citizens of Mendocino County …-funded, pro-biotechnology entities were unable to compete. The social problem of biotechnology was embedded in issues of mass …
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regulatory policies thatexplicitly promote sustainable traits; the structureof the agricultural biotechnology industry, which …
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