Environmentalism
Environmentalists assess genetic modification of crops, livestock, and potentially human beings with close attention to their effects on ecosystems and societies. They advocate for caution and responsible social governance in the face of high-risk technological innovation, including by regulating markets and corporations in order to ensure public health and well-being. Environmentalists pioneered the precautionary principle, an approach that assigns responsibility for demonstrating the safety of risky new technologies to those who would benefit from them, rather than those likely to be harmed. These tools of technical, policy, and social analysis hold important insights for understanding and evaluating human biotechnologies.
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Gene editing causes drastic unwanted effects in gene-edited plants including severe deformities, a new...