Making the Market “Safe” for Gm Foods: the Case of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee

Prudham, Scott; Morris, Angela

doi:10.1080/19187033.2006.11675105

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“…It is well established that the Canadian state plays a dual, contradictory role as both regulator and promoter of biotechnology (Magnan, 2006;Prudham & Morris, 2006). This dual role contributes to the production of discourses by both industry and the Canadian state which appear mutually supportive, including the use of complementary (and sometimes identical) language in descriptions of Canada's approach to regulating agricultural biotechnology.…”

Section: Canada's Stance: Pro-biotech Boon and Anti-biotech Battlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The essential idea is that GM crops deemed compositionally similar to crops already approved and on the market, may be exempt from certain safety assessments and other requirements because their risk is deemed comparable to an already approved crop (see Clark, 2004;Prudham & Morris, 2006) 11 . Substantial equivalence, and other aspects of Canada's GMO regulatory system, such as the efficacy of tests for toxins and allergens (see Clark, 2004) and a purely voluntary labelling standard for GM foods, provide grounds for critiques that this system is weighted in favour of industry development and away from a precautionary logic (see Prudham & Morris, 2006). This regulatory framework is an important component of the overall positive stance to biotechnology taken by the Canadian state.…”

Section: Canada's Stance: Pro-biotech Boon and Anti-biotech Battlementioning

confidence: 99%

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GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Tourangeau

2017

CanFoodStudies

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It has been over 20 years since Canada's first commercially grown genetically modified (GM) crops were approved, and debates over these contentious products continue to gain momentum. Literature exploring Canada's GMO debates has yet to focus specifically on the discourse of probiotech public relations campaigns and anti-biotech movements. This paper helps fill this gap with an analysis of power relations regarding efforts to inform public opinion on the topic of agricultural biotechnology. I explore these power relations in two arguments. First, I argue that the Canadian state's overall positive position toward agricultural biotechnology provides leverage to pro-biotech public relations, while delimiting the direction of anti-biotech campaigns. Second, I argue that the potency of pro-biotech frames are constituted and sustained by historically and culturally embedded norms and values, which add additional challenges for antibiotech campaigns. These findings reveal a clearer picture of the complexity of power relations within agri-biotech discourse, and the extent to which anti-biotech groups may be disadvantaged in these debates.

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Section: Canada's Stance: Pro-biotech Boon and Anti-biotech Battlementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Canada's Stance: Pro-biotech Boon and Anti-biotech Battlementioning

confidence: 99%

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Tourangeau

2017

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“…governments also open institutional spaces to address concerns about GM crops, but NGOs reject invitations (Levidow 1998;Prudham and Morris 2006;Kinchy 2012, 105). For peasant organizations in northern Argentina, however, the government's offer was harder to reject since leaders had to respond to the pressures and needs of their constituents (Lapegna 2013).…”

Section: The Journal Of Peasant Studiesmentioning

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Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina

Lapegna

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Since the 2000s, both the production of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and the cases of agrochemical exposure have grown exponentially in Argentina. Drawing on ethnographic research, I analyze how peasant social movements understand the socioenvironmental problems caused by the expansion of GM soybeans. I argue that at national, provincial, and local scales, the institutional recognition of peasant social movements and the performative actions of authorities discourage contentious collective action through subtle yet powerful mechanisms. The article contributes to social movement research and to the literature on peasant resistance by analyzing the cultural dynamics that constrain contention and shape processes of peasant collaboration, which are arguably as important as peasant resistance, although much less studied.

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“…Previous studies have also revealed that the Canadian government has sought to promote biotechnology as a competitive technology (Abergel & Barrett, ; Andrée, ; Moore, ; Prudham & Morris, ; Skogstad, , pp. 209–240).…”

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Examining the Canadian Government's Resistance to Including Socioeconomic Concerns in Genetically Modified Seeds Regulation: A Policy Transfer and Multilevel Approach

Marcoux

Létourneau

2014

Review of Policy Research

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In 2011, Canadian Members of Parliament refused to transfer a regulatory initiative taken from Argentina that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before authorizing the sale of any new genetically modified seed. This was the purpose of Bill C-474, which was defeated in the House of Commons. After exploring Argentina's regulatory framework as a source of transfer, this paper combines a multilevel analysis with a typology of policy transfer mechanisms in order to address the complexities underlying this unsuccessful attempt. We explore how the mechanisms of competition and coercion might have impeded the transfer of such an initiative at the international and the macro-state levels. Moreover, while a policy transfer network in support of the bill called on previous experiences with genetically modified seeds, their efforts appear to have been outweighed by another network using arguments based on the mechanisms of competition, coercion, and mimicry.

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Making the Market “Safe” for Gm Foods: the Case of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee

Cited by 12 publications

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GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina

Examining the Canadian Government's Resistance to Including Socioeconomic Concerns in Genetically Modified Seeds Regulation: A Policy Transfer and Multilevel Approach

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