The Lack of Sustainable Nutritious Food Solutions Due to Unethical Governance via Land Grabbing for Industrial Agriculture The Land Grab is a prime example of unethical behavior. Government that is intended to enhance the lives of its citizens, but instead ends up “farming them out,” selling them a bill of goods that is not for the citizen’s benefit, but themselves (Verma, 2014). While considering Land Grab tactics, I wonder if Kantian Ethics are applicable. I have serious doubts that the United States or the United Kingdom would allow other nations to make deals with them that took land from its citizens, to include some case that require them to leave personally owned property and farms, abandoning their livelihoods to make way for
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We should make it known that we find it unacceptable, and expect them to change their practices so that unethical decisions made by governments will not happen, as in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, The Caribbean, and Vietnam, to name a …show more content…
There is a responsibility to do the right thing. Arguments that are in favor of biotechnology agriculture mostly originate from governments, corporations and scientists that seek solutions through the development, production and exportation of GMO’s (Dibden et al., 2013). This seems to be riddled with ethical underpinnings. Those agents who oppose biotechnology agriculture are generally those with environmental issues, social issues, non-government organizations (NGO’s), consumers and the retailers who care about consumer concerns; these are found in the nations where popular opinion opposes GMO crops and foods. These nations consequentially are also generally opposed to the industrial and corporate production and control agendas. I feel there are characteristics of Certainty Avoidance, found in Rawls’ Justice Theory. Per Dibden et al., (2013), (as cited in Lang & Heasman, 2004) this is known as, “Food Wars.” Part of the social responsibility of implementing biotechnology agriculture is that it must transcend the basic functionality of basic food sufficiency, i.e. is it sustainable? Will the genetically modified foods be equally distributed? Will it be affordable to the disadvantaged and underrepresented? Finally, will it meet actual needs such as nutritional minimums (Dibden et al.,
We should make it known that we find it unacceptable, and expect them to change their practices so that unethical decisions made by governments will not happen, as in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, The Caribbean, and Vietnam, to name a …show more content…
There is a responsibility to do the right thing. Arguments that are in favor of biotechnology agriculture mostly originate from governments, corporations and scientists that seek solutions through the development, production and exportation of GMO’s (Dibden et al., 2013). This seems to be riddled with ethical underpinnings. Those agents who oppose biotechnology agriculture are generally those with environmental issues, social issues, non-government organizations (NGO’s), consumers and the retailers who care about consumer concerns; these are found in the nations where popular opinion opposes GMO crops and foods. These nations consequentially are also generally opposed to the industrial and corporate production and control agendas. I feel there are characteristics of Certainty Avoidance, found in Rawls’ Justice Theory. Per Dibden et al., (2013), (as cited in Lang & Heasman, 2004) this is known as, “Food Wars.” Part of the social responsibility of implementing biotechnology agriculture is that it must transcend the basic functionality of basic food sufficiency, i.e. is it sustainable? Will the genetically modified foods be equally distributed? Will it be affordable to the disadvantaged and underrepresented? Finally, will it meet actual needs such as nutritional minimums (Dibden et al.,