Issues in Agricultural Bioethics

Authors: Edited by T B Mepham, G A Tucker and J Wiseman
Most debate about the ethical implications of modern biotechnology has centred around medical issues, but public concerns over the impact of agricultural biotechnologies have gathered momentum.

This volume, resulting from the 55th University of Nottingham Easter School in Agricultural and Food Science, provides an invaluable survey of this important new field of enquiry. The book will be of interest to a wide readership, including applied philosophers, sociologists, economists and ecologists, as well as biotechnologists and agricultural and food scientists.
"... a significant synthesis of knowledge ... an important warning bell to call agriculture back from being a branch of the finance and pharmaceutical industries. Read this book and be refreshed by it."
Livestock Production Science

Availability:In print
Publication date:1995
Binding:Hardback
Extent:413 pp.
ISBN:1-897676-23-9

Book Contents

The cultural and symbolic dimensions of agricultural biotechnology
Bioethical aspects of research policy in the agricultural and food sciences
Risks and responsibilities in modern agriculture
Nutrition and health: policy implications
Ethical issues in the marketing of infant foods
Ethical aspects of food preservation
Ethical aspects of food processing
Techniques for genetic manipulation of crops and micro-organisms
Biopesticides
Herbicide resistance
Ethical aspects of crop biotechnology
Appropriate application of agriculture technology
Biodiversity
Biomass fuel and environmental sustainability in agriculture
Modification of farm animals by genetic engineering and immunomodulation
Reproductive technologies in farm animals
Strategies for sustainable livestock in the tropics
Philosophical dimensions of farm animal biotechnology
Farm animal welfare: the law and its limitations
Assessment of farm animal welfare
The ethics of animal use in agriculture
Technology transfer or alternative technology?
Public acceptability of agricultural biotechnology
Global impacts of agricultural biotechnology
Index
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