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Frankenfoods?

By Bill Rhodes, Maha M. Alkhazindar, Nancy A. Schiller

This discussion case, in which a university research laboratory is vandalized by environmental activists opposed to genetic engineering, focuses on the science and ethics of genetically modified crops. Students consider both the risks and benefits of...

Irradiation

By Swamy Anantheswaran

“Leo Altamari,” CEO of Kutztown Meat Packing Corporation, has just come back from his Monday morning staff meeting, where the major agenda item was a discussion about the irradiation of meat products.  Leo must decide whether his company sho...

The Benign Hamburger

By Graham F. Peaslee, Juliette Lantz, Mary Walczak

In this dilemma case study, the executives of a popular restaurant chain must decide whether to use irradiated meat, in this case, beef, to protect its customers from the bacteria, E. coli. Students learn about food irradiation and discuss issues rel...

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