Criminology and genetically modified food

Genetically modified or engineered foods are produced from rapidly expanding technologies that have sparked international debates and concerns about health and safety. These concerns focus on the potential dangers to human health, the risks of genetic pollution, and the demise of alternative farming...

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Autor principal: Walters, Reece (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electronic/Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2004, Volumen: 44, Número: 2, Páginas: 151-167
Acceso en línea: Volltext (doi)
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Sumario:Genetically modified or engineered foods are produced from rapidly expanding technologies that have sparked international debates and concerns about health and safety. These concerns focus on the potential dangers to human health, the risks of genetic pollution, and the demise of alternative farming techniques as well as biopiracy and economic exploitation by large private corporations. This article discusses the findings of the world's first Royal Commission on Genetic Modification conducted in New Zealand and reveals that there are potential social, ecological and economic risks created by genetically modified foods that require closer criminological scrutiny. As contemporary criminological discourses continue to push new boundaries in areas of crimes of the economy, environmental pollution, risk management, governance and globalization, the potential concerns posed by genetically modified foods creates fertile ground for criminological scholarship and activism
ISSN:0007-0955
DOI:10.1093/bjc/44.2.151