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Do you think Genetically Modified food (GM) is morally justifiable? How about the "Industrialisation" of food production?
We covered artificial selection today in Biology, and it got me thinking about the ethics of production. Animals like the Belgian blue cow are bred solely for their consumption as beef.
Expanding the topic, is it right to manufacture animals for food as we do in, say, battery farms?
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Sandra Lozes
An example of how antibiotics affect humans, when bacterial infection jumps from human to animal and back to human, leaving an evolved superbug resistant to many antibiotics due to repeated exposure.