DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 1 Ethics of Controlling Environmental Innovation

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DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 1 Ethics of Controlling
Environmental Innovation

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• ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 1 Ethics of Controlling
  Environmental Innovation
• Increasing food supplies are necessary to sustain
  growing populations around the world and their
  appetites for great food, quality products, and
  continuous availability.
• A great deal of expensive research is invested in
  developing technologies to deliver productive
  agriculture. Horticultural efforts to breed
  hybrid crops are seen as far

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• back as history can observe, and there have been
  efforts to domesticate improved animals, as well.
  Gene splitting was a 1990s technology to improve
  the health and productivity of farm crops. With
  the 21st century have come genetically modified
  foods (GMF) through the use of nanotechnology to
  cause changes at the genetic and even molecular
  levels. These are very expensive technologies,
  and many new products have been patented and
  otherwise protected as proprietary products of
  intellectual property.
• Drive out to the country during growing season,
  and you will see signs identifying that the crop
  has been grown with a protected seed that cannot
  be used to produce retained seed for planting in
  the next growing season.
• In terms of this weeks TCOs, what ethical issues
  are raised by this legal process of patent
  protection, and how do we see the primary schools
  of ethics used in these proprietary measures?
  What, in this deontological week and in our
  learning to date, informs our understanding of
  this situation, and what should be done about it?