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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'food ethics'
On Nanofoods, Someone is Finally Listening
Move over "Frankenfoods", here come "nanofoods, says thebigmoney.com. Quoting blog.bioethics.net, they note that nanofoods' potential and their pitfalls--and what may be coming down the pipeline. One of the first articles in a long while to take notice of the social and ethical implications of these new developments, hopefully it will... (read the rest)
President Obama Takes Food Ethics Seriously
In his Saturday morning radio address, President Obama took on the issue of food safety as a moral responsibility for our nation. The lack of food safety and a "demoralized" Food and Drug Administration was characterized as a "threat to public health" by the President, according to the Wall Street... (read the rest)
Nanofood: Without Transparency and Accountability, A Guaranteed Public Health Crisis
Also published on NanotechNow.com, this month's Nanoethics column focuses on the ethical issues of nanofood. You can read the article by clicking the link above, or you can read it in full-text below. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: "You are what you eat." Well,... (read the rest)
NYC Is At It Again. This Time Salt Is The Enemy.
Last month, we blogged about New York Governor David Paterson's announcement that he was supporting an 18% tax against sugary drinks that contribute to the obesity epidemic in his state (and across the country). I called him "New York Governor--Public Health Crusader." Now, New York City's Department of Health and... (read the rest)
High Fructose Corn Syrup Isn't JUST Sugar After All....
Well, it turns out that the anti-high fructose corn syrup crusaders had something to fear all along. Not just rotting teeth or hyperactivity, but evidently mercury in their children's Frosted Flakes and Fruit Gushers, too. As discussed in today's Huffington Post, this news isn't a recent discovery: FDA has known... (read the rest)
Eat a Kangaroo--Save the Planet?
As far as environmental ethics issues go, this one takes the cake. But research done in New Zealand by the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium suggest that eating meat from animals that produce significant amounts of gases that harm the environment simply will not do. Instead, eat a kangaroo! Before,... (read the rest)
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