Corporate Decisions about Labelling Genetically Modified Foods |
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Authors: | Chris MacDonald Melissa Whellams |
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Institution: | 1.Department Of Bioethics,Dalhousie University,Halifax,Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper considers whether individual companies have an ethical obligation to label their Genetically Modified (GM) foods.
GM foods and ingredients pervade grocery store shelves, despite the fact that a majority of North Americans have worries about
eating those products. The market as whole has largely failed to respond to consumer preference in this regard, as have North
American governments. A number of consumer groups, NGO’s, and activist organizations have urged corporations to label their
GM products. This paper asks whether, in such a situation, individual corporations can be ethically required to take such
unilateral action. We argue that they cannot. Given the lack of solid evidence for any risk to human health, and the serious
market disadvantage almost surely associated with costly unilateral action, no individual company has an ethical obligation
to label its GM foods. |
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