Annotated Bibliography

Kurtese Nichols

                                    Annotated Bibliography: Monsanto vs. Farmers  

 

Bishop, J. (2012). The Limits of Corporate Human Rights Obligations and the Rights of For-

            Profit Corporations. Business Ethics Quarterly, 22(1), 119-144.

This article summarizes how legal rights are given to cooperation causing them to undertaking human rights. This becomes a problem because cooperation’s are supposed to respect human rights .However; this cooperation have been abusing and substituting legal rights. The article explains the legal obligation and implications regarding human rights.

This article ties into the Monsanto vs. Farmers conflict because is describes how cooperations should govern and obey human rights and essentially, the Monsanto wheat company does not do this because they violate the human rights as they sell genetically modified planting seeds for crops and meats. The article also argues that human rights where designed not regarding cooperations, but individuals. Therefore, farmers because they are individuals, have the right to grow crops without inference of cooperations. This article can be used in defense of the fact that farmers have to use Monsanto seeds in order to progressively grow crops. However this also contradicts because although farmer have the right to grow their own “natural crops”, if cooperations are given human rights they somewhat have power to interfere especially if Monsanto is claiming to better the world.

Five Say No to GMO. (2005). Alternatives Journal, 31(3), 5.

            This article talks the European Union that is against GMO. Five countries in this Union have banded GMO completely. Austria, France, Germany, Greece and Luxembourg are the countries that made this decision because they feel that GMO is a threat to “human and environmental health.”

            This article is very important to my conflict because this article clearly shows that the United States is not the only place in the world taking action against GMO. This article also helps readers realize that this issue is bigger than just the US, ultimately making the statement that this issue is very important. It also helps me give incite from other countries and why they are against GMO. This helps to not form a bias opinion talking into consideration my other resources are from a US standpoint because I can use other countries point of view to balance everything out.

Freedman, D. H. (2013). Are engineered foods evil?. Scientific American, 309(3), 80-85.

            This article discusses the pros and cons of genetically engineered foods. The author describes the engineered foods as a brilliant idea because of the simple fact that years ago one couldn’t reproduce food by, “altering plants’ genomes”. The author then goes on to discuss how many people try to tie GM foods to health issues but the health issues “can be subtle and nearly impossible to link to specific changes in the environment.”

            This ties into my conflict because it serves as defense to GMO, specifically Monsanto.  There have been numerous law suits against Monsanto’s agricultural company claiming the GM foods effect people’s health. This article clears that issue up by stating that although that is thought to be true studies have not shown evidence to confirm it. I can also use this article to identify pro and cons of GM foods and conduct a survey for part of my final research paper.

McCabe, M. (2012). SUPERWEEDS AND SUSPECT SEEDS: DOES THE GENETICALLY-

ENGINEERED CROP DEREGULATION PROCESS PUT AMERICAN AGRICULTURE AT RISK?. University Of Baltimore Journal Of Land & Development,

            1(2), 109-155

            This article is about how Genetically Engineered foods can be affecting American agriculture. This article also uses statistics and experiments to figure if this is the case for American Agriculture. This article also give a in depth description of how the process of the GMO seeds and how they work and what is chemically used for them to work.

            This can help my article more in the statistically portion cause this information is taken from conducted studies and experiments. I can also stretch this article to be the introduction of the history of American Agriculture before GMO. This article helped determine another related theme or the GMO vs Farmers conflict.

Rajan, S., & Letourneau, D. K. (2012). What Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified

            Organisms Can Learn from Institutional Analyses of Public Health Risks. Journal Of

            Biomedicine & Biotechnology, 20121-8. doi:10.1155/2012/203093           

            This article is a scientific based article. The authors of this article is basically trying to figure out if Genetically modified foods is what is putting the public’s health at risk. They determine this by “comparing risk assessment for environmental toxins in the public health domain with genetically modified organisms in the environment.” With these studies the scientists hope to distinguish and analyze ecosystems and society.

            The information in this article can be helpful because it also helps determine whether or not its genetically modified foods affecting society of if it’s the change in the environment. This article can help me in one area which is determining whether or not Farmers against GMO can say that GMO is solely the cause of diseases that are new in the world. The fact that this article is based on studies help me in my statistical portion of my research paper.