Date of Publication

5-18-2015

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Juris Doctor

Subject Categories

Agricultural and Resource Economics

College

College of Law

Department/Unit

Law

Thesis Adviser

Victoria V. Loanzon

Defense Panel Chair

Brenda Jay Angeles-Mendoza

Defense Panel Member

Renato M. Pambid
Richard P. Torreja

Abstract/Summary

The purpose of this research is to explain why it is judicially unwise to stop the Golden Rice research as the ban on Bt eggplant field trials is likely to set precedent, owing to its persuasive effect. The international legal implications of this prohibition will be shown through the legal basis of the rights to food and health, biosafety, and global free trade that are all interwoven in the case of the Golden Rice research. This research will allow the reader to weigh between the imaginative risks that are falsely protected through the precautionary principle and the scientifically supported benefits of the viability of Golden Rice as a food-base approach to blindness prevention and hunger alleviation — for the achievement of the constitutionally ordained rising standard of living, more specially for women and children — whose roles in nation building cannot be insolently ignored.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Accession Number

TG05867; CDTG005867

Keywords

Rice—Research; Transgenic plants

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9-29-2022

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