Strengths of Utilitarianism: • Increases efficiency and productivity. • Profit maximization. Weaknesses of utilitarianism: • Difficult to evaluate all vital variables. • It can become an improper distribution of resources. • May lead to restrictions on some people's rights to achieve useful results. Strengths of human rights: • Protects the individual from getting hurt and identifies the sense of freedom. • Establishes norms of social behavior that are autonomous from outcomes. Weaknesses of human rights: • Can motivate individualistic and selfish behavior that intrudes on order and communication. • Identify personal benefits that may uncover barriers to productivity and efficiency. (Robert, 2013) For this reason, below we analyze the theory behind genetically modified organism technology. Genetically modified foods were first marketed in the United States in the early 1990s. The US food regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has allowed the first genetically modified foods onto world markets despite warnings from its own scientists that genetic engineering is different from conventional breeding and involves particular risks, including the production of new toxins or allergens (Shibko, 1992) The FDA established a policy for GM foods that did not require any safety testing or labeling. The US FDA's approach to evaluating the safety of GM crops and foods is based on the concept of substantial equivalence, which was initially claimed to be put forward by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a body dedicated not to protection of public health but to the facilitation of international trade. (OECD Working Group on Food Safety and Biotechnology, 1993) Substantial equivalence assumes that if a GMO contains similar quantities of some basic components such as proteins, fats and carbohydrates... half of the document... evidence regarding the safety or harmfulness of genetically modified foods. Such trials would normally consist of long-term animal feeding studies comparing a group of animals fed dietary ingredients in a non-genetically modified form. Instead, the studies examine topics such as risk assessment of genetically modified foods, testing methods for the presence and quantity of GMOs in food and feed, and consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods. This data is not exactly relevant to accessing the safety of any genetically modified food. . Indeed, the report makes clear that food safety research studies were not designed for this purpose, even though taxpayers would have the right to ask why the Commission spent €200 million of public money on a research project that does not managed to address this most pressing issue. on genetically modified foods. Instead, research studies were designed to develop “safety assessment approaches for genetically modified foods” (European Commission, 2010
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