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+GMO Free News Thanks for sharing this video and thanks for your comment! I agree, seeds cannot be easily, if at all, contained. The dance representation shows a sort of containment with the dancers because the idea behind my research is that every owner of GMOs has responsibilities to do everything they can to reduce spread and contamination, and that in order for this to be possible, they need to work together, otherwise one person may have too much of the burden and efforts become less efficient. Also, my research is on the responsibilities of owners of GMOs, people who develop them, distribute them, buy them for use, because they make the choice to use that technology, and expect benefits from it, so it's only fair to give them special responsibilities. In the current situation, only blame is distributed, and this, unfairly to people who did not choose to use them (to put it in a simplified way).

+Morgan Day The paper you are referring to is only one of the chapters of my thesis. Maybe when the whole book is out all your questions can be answered :) This paper is meant to add to the field of applied ethics and ethics of technology, so this is the audience I am writing to, which is meant to make an argument about why we need to talk of the moral responsibilities of owners of GM seeds. The video above is meant to share the general idea of my work with a wider public.

Not really.  I understand the perception from the public perspective... so is the audience for your paper the public then, and not those in agriculture?  What breeding techniques do you specifically defining as GM?  The stakes you have mentioned have not been specific in nature, and kind of general.  Do you have more specific examples?

+Morgan Day Thanks for your comment, I get your point better now. So, the first thing I want to say is that I don't think we can hold all GMO seeds equal in terms of hazards. Different modifications may call for different worries and to different degrees. The second thing is about the choice to focus on GMOs in that particular paper, and not other technologies that are used in plant breeding: I am focussing my research on GMOs because they raise such controversies, but I do mention in the paper that the considerations I raise for GMOs might also be raised for other ways of breeding crops. So in many ways, we tame nature to feed ourselves, and when we do so, we should do so in a responsible way because the stakes are so high. I hope this answers your question!

+Zoë Robaey Thanks for the reply!  That's a fair stance, and I gained that from reading your paper.  What I was curious about, is that your paper seems implies that GMOs are some how more hazardous than other crops or food, and I wanted to know about your personal opinion on that.  I understand the argument about technology, but it seems odd to hold transgenic or cisgenic crops in a separate category from other crops like polyploids, interspecific crosses, or mutatgenic varieties.Wouldn't these unknowns apply to these varieties just as much?

+Morgan Day Hi Morgan, thanks for watching and engaging on the discussion on GMOs! I believe any type of agriculture or technologies we use in agriculture should be used in a step-by-step way, looking at empirical facts on their use, learning about their effects, and following a number of ethical considerations. We will never know everything about our interventions on nature. We can predict a lot but there's always a measure of unknown. It's with these unknowns that we need extra-precaution and ethical considerations, such as ascribing moral responsibility, or thinking about fairness, inclusiveness, sustainability. Feeding the world is not a matter that should be taken lightly, so we should think about how we go about it in a more global way.