Misleading Morsels: The Moral And Ethical Dilemma Of Marketing Unlabeled Gm Foods
Submitted by Sk0rp10n91 on September 17, 2009
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Misleading Morsels: The Moral And Ethical Dilemma Of Marketing Unlabeled Gm Foods
According to the philosophers Philippa Foot, Geoffrey Warnock, and Kurt Baier, morality is defined as a force that prohibits a person from killing, deceiving, causing pain, or breaking promises (Gert). Furthermore, an ethical experiment is defined as one in which consent is given by the participants, the participants must be volunteers, and the volunteers must be informed of the circumstances of the experiment (Anter). Only 31% of Americans realize that they regularly consume genetically modified foods (“National Survey Shows”). With the long-term health effects of genetically modified foods still unknown and most of these foods remaining unlabeled as such, the American people are...
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