Genetically Modified Crops, Inclusion, and Democracy

摘要

The public controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops is predominantlyrnframed in terms of health and safety risks to humans and the environment.rnHowever, opponents of GM crops are motivated by a wide variety of otherrnsocial, political, and economic concerns. In this paper, I critically assess thernpredominance of the health and safety framing in terms of Iris Young’s modelrnof communicative democracy. I argue that the health and safety framing leadsrnto the marginalization of the social, political, and economic concerns of GMrnopponents, within both public discourse and government, and is therefore democraticallyrnillegitimate.