Genetic engineering in agriculture and corporate engineering in public debate: risk, public relations, and public debate over genetically modified crops |
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Authors: | Patel Rajeev Torres Robert J Rosset Peter |
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Institution: | Center for Civil Society, School of Development Studies, University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa. raj@voiceoftheturtle.org |
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Abstract: | Corporations have long influenced environmental and occupational health in agriculture, doing a great deal of damage, making substantial profits, and shaping public debate to make it appear that environmental misfortunes are accidents of an otherwise well-functioning system, rather than systemic. The debate over the genetically modified (GM) crops is an example. The largest producer of commercial GM seeds, Monsanto, exemplifies the industry's strategies: the invocation of poor people as beneficiaries, characterization of opposition as technophobic or anti-progress, and portrayal of their products as environmentally beneficial in the absence of or despite the evidence. This strategy is endemic to contemporary market capitalism, with its incentives to companies to externalize health and environmental costs to increase profits. |
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