Assignment – Case Write-Up #4
For this case, let’s explore the nature of genetically-modified food and where you reason your stance is on the ethical questions about GMO businesses. First read the case AquAdvantage Download AquAdvantage
Second, it might be helpful to peruse (don’t spend excessive amounts of time, there’s too much there) the information compiled by the US Food and Drug Administration on the productLinks to an external site… (https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/intentional-genomic-alterations-igas-animals/aquadvantage-salmon)
Now consider,
GMOs offer both tremendous hope to help with nutrition and disease (like Golden RiceLinks to an external site.)- and we have been selecting for crop characteristics since humans organized agriculture. At the same time, modifying organisms can have unexpected and devastating consequences. For example, in South Florida, GMO mosquitoLinks to an external site.s have been tested to control Zika virus
What is your position on genetically-modified foods? Construct your argument based on your personal ethical architecture? What is important to you in agreeing to support GMOs and would you use those products to feed yourself and your family?
