Strengths And Weaknesses Of Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism strengths:
• Increases efficiency and productivity.
• Maximizing the profit.
Utilitarianism weaknesses:
• Difficult to evaluate all vital variables.
• Can become improper distribution of resources.
• Can result in restricting some people’s rights to achieve the useful outcome.

Human rights strengths:
• Protects the individual from getting hurt and identifythe sense of freedom.
• Establishes norms of social behavior that are autonomus of results.
Human rights weaknesses:
• Can motivate individualistic, selfish behavior that intrudes with order and communication.
• Identifies personal advantages that may discoverobstacles in productivity and efficiency.(Robert, 2013)
For this reason, in the following we analyze the theory behind the technology ofgenetically modified organism.GM food were first commercialised in the US in the early 1990s. The US food regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), allowed the first GM foods onto world markets in spite of its own scientists‘ warnings that genetic engineering is different from conventional breeding and poses special risks, including the production of new toxins or allergens (Shibko, 1992) The FDA formed a policy for GM foods that did not require any safety tests or labeling.
The US FDA’s approach to assessing the safety of GM crops and foods is based on the concept of substantial equivalence, which was first put forward by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a body dedicated not to protecting public health but to facilitating international trade. (OECD working group on food safety and biotechnology, 1993)
Substantial equivalence assumes that if a GMO contains similar amounts of a few basic components such as protein, fat and carbohydrat...

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...evidence regarding the safety or harmfulness of GM foods. Such evidence would normally consist of long-term animal feeding studies comparing one group of animals fed diet ingredients in non-GM form. Instead, the studies examine such topics as risk assessment of GM foods, methods of testing for the presence and quantity of GMOs in food and feed, and consumer attitudes to GM foods.
This data is not precisely relevant to accessing the safety of any GM food. In fact, the report makes clear that the food safety research studies were not designed to do so – though taxpayers would be entitled to ask why the Commission spent 200 million Euros of public money on a research project that failed to address this most pressing of questions about GM foods. Instead, the research studies were designed to develop “safety assessment approaches for GM foods” (European Commission, 2010