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Choosing and rejecting cattle and sheep: changing discourses and practices of (de)selection in pedigree livestock breeding

Holloway, Lewis; Morris, Carol; Gilna, Ben; Gibbs, David - In: Agriculture and Human Values 28 (2011) 4, pp. 533-547

This paper examines the discourses and practices of pedigree livestock breeding, focusing on beef cattle and sheep in the UK, concentrating on an under-examined aspect of this—the deselection and rejection of some animals from future breeding populations. In the context of exploring how...

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How biotechnology regulation sets a risk/ethics boundary

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan - In: Agriculture and Human Values 14 (1997) 1, pp. 29-43

In public debate over agricultural biotechnology, at issue hasbeen its self-proclaimed aim of further … professionalethicists. Biotechnology embodies a contentious model of controlover nature and society, yet this issue becomes displaced …

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When goliaths clash: US and EU differences over the labeling of food products derived from genetically modified organisms

Thorpe, Andy; Robinson, Catherine - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 4, pp. 287-298

There is a fundamental divergence of opinion between the EU and the US over how food products derived from genetically modified organisms should be labeled. This has less to do with safety, as moves towards the international harmonization of safety standards continue apace, and rather more to do...

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Shopping for change? Neoliberalizing activism and the limits to eating non-GMO

Roff, Robin - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 4, pp. 511-522

While the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the spread of genetically engineered (GE) foods has gone largely unnoticed by the majority of Americans, a growing number of vocal civil society groups are opposing the technology and with it the entire conventional system of food...

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The recombinant BGH controversy in the United States: Toward a new consumption politics of food?

Buttel, Frederick - In: Agriculture and Human Values 17 (2000) 1, pp. 5-20

The history of the controversy overrecombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) is exploredin terms of the issue of the potential robustness ofa consumption-driven ``new'' politics of food andagriculture. It is noted that while the dominanthistorical traditions in the social sciences haveserved to...

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Against the neoliberal steamroller? The Biosafety Protocol and the social regulation of agricultural biotechnologies

Kleinman, Daniel; Kinchy, Abby - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 2, pp. 195-206

socioeconomic regulation of agricultural biotechnology in it. The literature on the Protocol has been fairly extensive, but little …

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Anti-genetic engineering activism and scientized politics in the case of “contaminated” Mexican maize

Kinchy, Abby - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 4, pp. 505-517

activists that respond to the scientization of biotechnology politics: (1) using scientific information as a resource; (2 …

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Restructuring food for corporate profit: The corporate genetics of Cargill and Monsanto

Kneen, Brewster - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 2, pp. 161-167

article uses the metaphor of “genetics” (inherent character) to examine two major transnational corporations operating at the …

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Localizing control: Mendocino County and the ban on GMOs

Walsh-Dilley, Marygold - In: Agriculture and Human Values 26 (2009) 1, pp. 95-105

against biotechnology. Using a civic agriculture perspective, this article explores how local actors in this small county were … able to take on the agri-biotechnology industry. I argue that by localizing the issue, the citizens of Mendocino County …-funded, pro-biotechnology entities were unable to compete. The social problem of biotechnology was embedded in issues of mass …

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The problem with the farmer’s voice

Stone, Glenn; Flachs, Andrew - In: Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2014) 4, pp. 649-653

In this essay we present three biases that make it difficult to represent farmer voices in a meaningful way. These biases are information bias, individual bias, and short-term bias. We illustrate these biases through two case studies. One is the case of Golden Rice in the Philippines and the...

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