Ethical Issues Facing the Food Industry

The balance of this paper outlines a framework for policy analysis, and demonstrates how ethics bears upon each element of the framework.. Contested issues in food biotechnology policy are used to illustrate the applicability of the framework for interpreting policy conflict. Although this approach addresses several of the key points where ethical concerns bear upon food biotechnology, the paper makes no attempt to survey the full range of ethical concern. What is more, the paper does not present a normative argument favoring one policy option rather than another. The idea that ethics requires a particular set of policies for food biotechnology is not argued in this paper. Instead, the purpose is to examine how ethical arguments establish a burden of proof for policy evaluation. The thesis is that effective policy making requires an ability to understand how different types of ethical criteria bear on policy, Insensitivity to contrasting ethical approaches will only prolong policy conflict.

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