La manipulación genética en una economía sustentable

Bermejo, Isabel

Publication year:

1998

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-8603

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Summary

An essential element in the concept of a sustainable economy is equity. The commercial applications of genetic engineering in agriculture do not, in any manner, respond to the criterion of "sustainability". New bio-technologies are contributing to a alarming concentration of basic resources for food in transnational companies, the only goal of which is to increase their benefits, with a serious risk for world food safety and the ecological balance of the planet.