Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective

• Main Author: Thompson, Paul B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 10
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food > Biotechnology.; Philosophy.; Pragmatism.; Agriculture.; Food Science.; Philosophy of Technology.

Agrifood biotechnology—the genetic transformation of plants and animals through recombinant means—has created controversy in the food system for more than twenty years. This thoroughly revised and amended edition of Paul B. Thompson’s path breaking study of ethical and philosophical issues raised by...