Dan Patrone presented a paper entitled: Prudence, Protection, and Crisis:  The Precautionary Principle in an Increasingly Hungry World at the Appignani Bioethics Center in New York this past weekend.

 

The Appignani Bioethics Center in collaboration with the University of Montreal, Canada is organized a conference entitled: Food, Famine and Future Technologies: Ethical Dilemmas in a Hungry World from May 22 to May 23, 2009 under the auspices of the United Nations Headquarters in NYC. The conference provided an international forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences and views regarding the priority needs and possible strategic means of enhancing the capacities of developing countries and countries with transitional economies to assess risk and monitor genetic modified organisms (GMOs). The conference goal was to identify and suggest a number of concrete steps to alleviate world hunger.

 

For more details on that conference and The Appignani Bioethics Center:

 www.humanistbioethics.org/appignani-upcoming-events.html