Developing the ethical matrix as a decision support framework: GM fish as a case study

Kaiser, Matthias; Millar, Kate; Thorstensen, Erik; Tomkins, S.

doi:10.1007/s10806-006-9023-8

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“…Among others, the Ethical Matrix has been recently used for ethically assessing fisheries (Kaiser and Forsberg 2001) and for ethical evaluation of GM Fish production (Kaiser et al 2007). …”

Section: Methodology For Examination Of Aquaculture-related Ethical Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Issues in Aquaculture Production

Grigorakis

2009

J Agric Environ Ethics

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The ethical issues raised by aquaculture were analyzed. A modification of the Ethical Matrix of the Food Ethics Council for the evaluation of novel foods was used; the Ethical Matrix was changed in order to include the various aquaculture production stages separately. The following stages were distinguished: the breeding stage, the growth/feeding stage, the ''other-handling'' stage (that includes disease and treatment, transportation of organisms, killing procedure, and DNA vaccinations), and the commercialization stage. The ethical issues concerning the producers, the consumers, the environment, and the aquacultured organisms, are discussed. This scheme was fitted to the intensive cage-culture of carnivorous fish. The differences with other forms of aquaculture are discussed, and how the scheme extrapolates to them. The ethical evaluation of aquaculture, in practice, will be rather a utilitarian balancing of cost and benefits of the respective actions. The desired characteristics of an ethical evaluation have been also outlined. Ethical evaluation should not be limited to a purely scientific analysis; it should be holistic, comparable to available alternatives, and should have the flexibility to incorporate new data generated in the fast growing/continuous changing aquaculture sector.

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“…Among others, the Ethical Matrix has been recently used for ethically assessing fisheries (Kaiser and Forsberg 2001) and for ethical evaluation of GM Fish production (Kaiser et al 2007). …”

Section: Methodology For Examination Of Aquaculture-related Ethical Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Issues in Aquaculture Production

Grigorakis

2009

J Agric Environ Ethics

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“…It could be argued that lower prices for animal proteins high in beneficial nutrients represents a considerable consumer benefit which will deliver advantages to public health, although this may not be such an important benefit given that early innovations are destined for more affluent countries (Menozzi, Mora, and Merigo 2012). Of potentially greater importance regarding consumer adoption is the issue of how moral and ethical concerns contribute to rejection of GM animals in food (Kaiser et al 2007). It is suggested that the principle of informed choice, through adoption and implementation of an effective traceability and labeling policy, will prove beneficial if and when products are released into the market.…”

Section: Contamination Of Fish By Environmental Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extrapolating understanding of food risk perceptions to emerging food safety cases

Kaptan

Fischer

Frewer

2017

Journal of Risk Research

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Important determinants of risk perceptions associated with foods are the extent to which the potential hazards are perceived to have technological or naturally occurring origins, together with the acute vs. chronic dimension in which the potential hazard is presented (acute or chronic). This study presents a case study analysis based on an extensive literature review examining how these hazard characteristics affect people's risk and benefit perceptions, and associated attitudes and behaviors. The cases include E. coli incidences (outbreaks linked to fresh spinach and fenugreek sprouts), contamination of fish by environmental pollutants, (organochlorine contaminants in farmed salmon), radioactive contamination of food following a nuclear accident (the Fukushima accident in Japan), and GM salmon destined for the human food chain. The analysis of the cases over the acute vs. chronic dimension suggests that longitudinal quantification of the relationship between risk perceptions and impacts is important for both acute and chronic food safety, but this has infrequently been applied to chronic hazards. Technologies applied to food production tend to potentially be associated with higher levels of risk perception, linked to perceptions that the risk is unnatural. However, for some risks (e.g. those involving biological irreversibility), moral or ethical concerns may be more important determinants of consumer responses than risk or benefit perceptions. (Lack of) trust has been highlighted in all of the cases suggesting transparent and honest risk-benefit communications following the occurrence of a food safety incident. Implications for optimizing associated risk communication strategies, additional research linking risk perception, and other quantitative measures, including comparisons in time and space, are suggested.

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“…The ethical matrix is a conceptual tool developed since the mid-1990s by Ben Mepham, a professor of bioethics at Nottingham University and then further applied to several case studies (Kaiser, Millar, Thorstensen, & Tomkins, 2007;Mepham, Kaiser, Thorstensen, & Millar, 2006). This conceptual tool has been used primarily in the food and agriculture sector in order to help decision-makers to reach shared agreements about ethically sensitive issues (e.g., the adoption of prospective and sometimes controversial technologies).…”

Section: Ethical Matrixmentioning

confidence: 99%

One size fits all? A different perspective on university rankings

Goglio¹

2016

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

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In roughly a decade, university rankings gained the foreground in the policy arena for higher education and their influence is not going to decrease. However, several methodological shortcomings and warnings about the unintended consequences for national higher education systems have been raised. Against this background, this paper stresses that the individual recipients of information contained in university rankings are currently overlooked. Indeed, university rankings are addressed to a generic recipient, but actually, there are multiple audiences for rankings, and each of these audiences has different needs and each one attributes a different value to information attached to rankings. Referring to a theoretical tool borrowed from bioethics, this paper highlights that the ranking game involves a variety of recipients and that the current setting of the ranking panorama leaves room for gaps to emerge.

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Developing the ethical matrix as a decision support framework: GM fish as a case study

Cited by 87 publications

References 5 publications

Ethical Issues in Aquaculture Production

Ethical Issues in Aquaculture Production

Extrapolating understanding of food risk perceptions to emerging food safety cases

One size fits all? A different perspective on university rankings

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