"Ethical Issues in Agriculture", Professor Paul Thompson (U. Toronto)
Channel: IPBio
Date: 2012-03-23

"Ethical Issues in Agriculture: Genetically Modified Crops and the Organic Movement"

Workshop with Paul Thompson, Professor of Philosophy and of Zoology, University of Toronto Chaired by Professor John Dupré (Egenis) with responses from Professor Michel Morange (IHPST), Professor Jean Gayon (IHPST), Professor Michael Winter (University of Exeter Centre for Rural Policy Research) and Dr Berris Charnley (Egenis)

There has been considerable public debate about food during the past two decades. Advocates for organic agriculture, eating locally grown food and rejecting genetic modification abound. Although many of the claims made in support of positions on these topics allude to health, environmental and economic issues, the core of the debates is ethical and philosophical and for some theological (benefits, harms, risks and human hubris and usurping of nature, for example). These ethical and philosophical issues are the focus of this lecture although the empirical claims made about health, the environment and the economy will form an essential backdrop.

Friday 10th February 2012
2.30 -- 5.30pm

For more info contact:
Website: http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/
Email: b.charnley@exeter.ac.uk