One Health, Vaccines and Ebola: The Opportunities for Shared Benefits [0.03%]
同一个健康、疫苗和埃博拉病毒:共享收益的机会
Benjamin Capps,Zohar Lederman
Benjamin Capps
The 2013 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, as of writing, is declining in reported human cases and mortalities. The resulting devastation caused highlights how health systems, in particular in West Africa, and in terms of global pandemic...
Taxing Meat: Taking Responsibility for One's Contribution to Antibiotic Resistance [0.03%]
对肉类征税:为自己对抗生素耐药性的贡献负责
Alberto Giubilini,Patrick Birkl,Thomas Douglas et al.
Alberto Giubilini et al.
Antibiotic use in animal farming is one of the main drivers of antibiotic resistance both in animals and in humans. In this paper we propose that one feasible and fair way to address this problem is to tax animal products obtained with the ...
Retracting Inconclusive Research: Lessons from the Séralini GM Maize Feeding Study [0.03%]
从塞拉利尼转基因玉米喂养试验谈撤回不成熟研究的教训
David B Resnik
David B Resnik
In September 2012, Gilles-Eric Séralini and seven coauthors published an article in Food and Chemical Toxicology claiming that rats fed Roundup©-resistant genetically modified maize alone, genetically modified maize with Roundup©, or Rou...
On Governance, Embedding and Marketing: Reflections on the Construction of Alternative Sustainable Food Networks [0.03%]
关于治理、内嵌和营销的思考——兼论可持续食品网络构建
Dirk Roep,Johannes S C Wiskerke
Dirk Roep
Based on the reconstruction of the development of 14 food supply chain initiatives in 7 European countries, we developed a conceptual framework that demonstrates that the process of increasing the sustainability of food supply chains is roo...
Including public perspectives in industrial biotechnology and the biobased economy [0.03%]
包容公众的意见以促进工业生物技术及生物经济的发展
Lino Paula,Frans Birrer
Lino Paula
Industrial ("white") biotechnology promises to contribute to a more sustainable future. Compared to current production processes, cases have been identified where industrial biotechnology can decrease the amount of energy and raw materials ...
Gitte Meyer
Gitte Meyer
This paper discusses aspects of the relationship between the scientific community and the public at large. Inspired by the European public debate on genetically modified crops and food, ethical challenges to the scientific community are hig...
The moral difference between intragenic and transgenic modification of plants [0.03%]
植物的内源基因修饰和外来基因修饰之间的道德差异
Bjorn K Myskja
Bjorn K Myskja
Public policy on the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has mainly been concerned with defining proper strategies of risk management. However, surveys and focus group interviews show that although lay people are co...
Measuring biotechnology employees' ethical attitudes towards a controversial transgenic cattle project: the ethical valance matrix [0.03%]
转基因家畜员工伦理态度量表(EVM)的编制及对体细胞克隆牛项目的态度调查研究报告
Bruce H Small,Mark W Fisher
Bruce H Small
What is the relationship between biotechnology employees' beliefs about the moral outcomes of a controversial transgenic research project and their attitudes of acceptance towards the project? To answer this question, employees (n=466) of a...
D R Cooley,Gary Goreham,George A Youngs
D R Cooley
In one study funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, people from North Dakota were interviewed to discover which moral principles they use in evaluating the morality of transgenic organisms and their introduction into markets...
Anders Melin
Anders Melin
Genetic modification leads to several important moral issues. Up until now they have been discussed from the viewpoint that only individual living beings, above all animals, are morally considerable. The standpoint that also collective enti...