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Ethical Considerations Of Genetically Modified Food Safety

Posted on:2013-06-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J PingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374455106Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Since1983, the birth of the world’s first genetically modified plants since GMcrops development, research began to gradually spread worldwide, the situationappeared to flourish. The face of rapid development of technology, geneticallymodified food types increased year by year, has brought great economic benefits tomankind, some countries even as important as the cause of national security to bedeveloped. At the same time, the issue of GM food safety also sparked widespreaddebate over the world, became the center of national environmental and healthissues, with the attendant social and ethical and moral issues are also increasinglybecoming an academic debate and a major topic of public concern This center isfaced with many must seriously consider and resolve ethical dilemmas. How toensure the safety of genetically modified foods and effectively remove the shackleson ethics has become a major theoretical and practical significance of the subject.Paper is divided into five parts to elaborate, introduction section providesevidence and significance for the subject of this article, describes the structure ofresearch at home and abroad, as well as papers, research methods, and describesthe innovative points of the paper, and academic values, summed up theshortcomings of the paper. The first part, focuses on the development ofgenetically modified foods in the world. The second part, mainly made fromhuman health and ecological aspects of genetically modified food ethicscontroversy during the application process. The third part, explains the theory ofethical argument analysis. Part IV, describes the ethical principles for maintainingthe safety of genetically modified foods. Part v, to genetically modified foodcontroversy related ethical issues involved in an ethical solution. Conclusions forethics from the perspective of application prospect of genetically modified food.
Keywords/Search Tags:Genetically modified food, ethics, controversy, measures
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