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As such, the painless slaughtering of livestock is much less morally significant than the suffering that food animals endure while they are alive. They identified a set of heuristics and biases that were being deployed in lieu of actually working through the mathematics that would have been necessary to achieve the paradigmatically correct answer. In fact, they arrive at the preferred answer because the cognitive science has shown that they are avoiding the need to think about too hard.
Expending time and effort to calculate utilities is justified only when the outcome achieves more utility than the expenditure of time and effort itself consumes. But for Hare and many present day consequentialists, there are specific cases where working through the calculations is worthwhile, and morally necessary, Varner, As I see it, once again the question for ethics is knowing which questions to ask, which questions, in other words, justify the effort that is needed to deploy System II cognitive resources.
I note in passing that when the questions presuppose a social epistemology, as in my view they generally do, the cognitive resources needed to carry out a System II exercise at a group level become considerable indeed. In this domain of ethics, food becomes quite interesting as a case study. On the one hand, what we eat is a paradigmatic example of choice behavior.
Often enough we stand or sit before an array of options—a menu—from which one course of action will be selected. This is the very model of how we think of a decision situation. On the other hand, what we actually eat is very often determined by habit and circumstance.
Even when we are not eating something just because it has literally set down in front of us, our choices are impulsive, reflecting cultural mores, long patterns of behavior and constrained circumstances far more than they do any kind of reflective evaluation.
Elizabeth Sperry situates her questions about my reading of the precautionary principle within an overall assessment of my approach that is quite complimentary, so I want to return favor by stating at the outset that I actually agree with two of the three ways in which she justifies precaution. First, we should certainly take relevantly similar past initiatives into account, and we should redouble our precaution when there is no precedent for a novel technology.
Second, there certainly should be independent monitoring for untoward results. Her commentary is a bit sparse on detail as to how she thinks our regulatory approach to GMOs has failed to take account of these two principles, but she evidently thinks that it has not.
In response I begin by noting that substantial equivalence is not used in evaluating environmental risks, only food safety. It is important to understand exactly what it involves.
As my book indicates, there are many things that we commonly eat that have never been tested for safety. For whole foods on the GRAS list, there are also standardized tables that establish a range for the naturally occurring chemical components of a food. Tomatoes, for example, contain glucose, fructose, lycopene, citric, malic and dicarboxylic amino acids and many more chemical compounds. However, the proportion of each component may vary rather significantly depending on the variety of tomato, the soil in which it is grown and other variables including weather and farming practice.
Second, they must show that the protein or chemical produced by the transgene has been shown to be safe by independent testing. The only thing more that one could do would be to require randomized clinical trials much like those that are done for new drugs, but as my book explains this is simply not a feasible approach for foods. There is too much variety in our normal diets to establish a meaningful control.
In fact I do discuss recent work on glyphosate in the book, though it comes in Chapter 8, rather than Chapter 7 which is the main focus of her comments. There I point out that glyphosate is used extensively on non-GMO crops, and I might add that doses are likely to be higher on non-GMO applications, because there the herbicide must be applied before the crop comes out of the ground. It is not necessary to use genetic engineering to develop a herbicide tolerant crop.
Although I am not aware of any commercially available seed varieties of glyphosate tolerant crops, they have been developed and quite probably would have been commercialized had GMO versions not been available. Although unhealthful exposure to glyphosate may be associated with workers who spray it on a GMO crop, similarly unhealthful exposures are associated with other uses, too.
My general point is that the inductive argument Sperry is citing is not an argument against GMOs. It is an argument that pertains to toxic chemicals used in agriculture, and the lesson it teaches is the same one that Rachel Carson was preaching in Silent Spring.
Let me turn now to the question that Greg Hoskins has posed, which also deal with risk. Risk assessment is a highly formalized process normally carried out by people with a high level of expertise in logical analysis, statistics and quantitative decision making. It thus exemplifies a social institutionalization of a System II cognitive system. It is slow thinking par excellence.
If you will indulge me with a bit of oversimplification, it distinguishes and then emphasizes two key cognitive tasks.
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