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Schedule of Readings

Date Readings Presenters
21 Aug Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma,
Introduction, Chapters 1-3
NO PRESENTATION
26 Aug Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma,
Chapters 4-5; Freedman, How Junk
Food Can End Obesity

28 Aug Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma,
Chapters 6-7; Hurst, The Omnivores
Delusion: Against the Agri-
Intellectuals

2 Sep Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma,
Chapters 8-9
Jean Mullaney
4 Sep Pollan, The Omnivores Dilemma,
Chapters 10-14
Chase Bass
9 Sep Singer and Mason, The Ethics of What
We Eat, Introduction, Chapters 1-5
Aaron Peek
11 Sep NO CLASS NO PRESENTATION
16 Sep Singer and Mason, The Ethics of What
We Eat, Chapters 6-9
Arushi Bhatia
18 Sep Singer and Mason, The Ethics of What
We Eat, Chapters 10-12
Lauren Burns
23 Sep Singer and Mason, The Ethics of What
We Eat, Chapters 13-16
Katelyn Adcock
25 Sep Singer and Mason, The Ethics of What
We Eat, Chapters 17-18
Daniel Blanchard
30 Sep Norcross, Puppies, Pigs, and People:
Eating Meat and Marginal Cases
Tucker Locicero
2 Oct Campbell, Whole, Introduction,
Chapters 1-3
Robert Sprouse
7 Oct Campbell, Whole, Chapters 4-7 (pp. 45-
106)
Trey Garrett
9 Oct NO CLASS MIDTERM EXAM
DUE
NO PRESENTATION
14 Oct NO CLASS FALL 2013 STUDENT
RECESS
NO PRESENTATION
16 Oct Campbell, Whole, Chapters 8-12
21 Oct Campbell, Whole, Chapters 13-15
23 Oct Campbell, Whole, Chapters 16-19 Shannon Kratz
28 Oct Mariner and Annas, Limiting Sugary
Drinks to Reduce Obesity Who
Decides?; Fairchild, Half Empty or
Half Full?; Resnik, Trans Fat Bans
and Human Freedom
Nick Kerszberg
30 Oct Open Peer Commentaries on Trans
Fat Bans and Human Freedom by

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Gostin, Wilson and Dawson, Keane,
Nobis and Gardner, Rubel,
Boddington, Kirkwood, and DeVille;
Resnik, Response to Peer
Commentaries
4 Nov Ruse and Castle, Prologue (pp. 9-19),
Editors General Introduction (pp. 21-
28), Eichenwald et al., Biotechnology
Food: From the Lab to a Debacle (pp.
31-40); Guerinot, The Green
Revolution Strikes Gold (pp. 41-44);
Greenpeace, Genetically Engineered
Golden Rice is Fools Gold (pp. 52-
54); Potrykus, Golden Rice and the
Greenpeace Dilemma (pp. 55-57);
Shiva, Golden Rice Hoax (pp. 58-
62); Conway, Open Letter to
Greenpeace (pp. 63-64)

6 Nov NO CLASS NO PRESENTATION
11 Nov Thompson, Bioethics Issues in a
Biobased Economy (pp. 68-76);
Saner, Real and Metaphorical Moral
Limits in the Biotech Debate (pp. 77-
79)

Magnus and Caplan, Food for
Thought (pp. 80-87); Comstock,
Ethics and Genetically Modified
Foods (pp. 88-105)
Andy Loper
13 Nov Safire, Franken-: A Monstrous Prefix
is Stalking Europe (pp. 133-134);
Spencer, Biotech Foods: Right to
Know What? (pp. 135-141);
McHughen, Uninformation and the
Choice Paradox (pp. 142-147)

18 Nov Wilson, Intellectual Property Rights in
Genetically Modified Agriculture (pp.
151-162); Gold, Merging Business
and Ethics (pp. 163-181)
David Savrda
20 Nov Culver, Return to Normal
25 Nov Dagicour, Protecting the
Environment (pp. 251-264); Goklany,
Applying the Precautionary Principle
to Genetically Modified Crops (pp.
265-291); Miller and Conko,
Precaution without Principle (pp.
292-296)

27 Nov NO CLASS OFFICIAL SCHOOL
HOLIDAY

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2 Dec Shiva, Seeds of Suicide and Slavery
versus Seeds of Life and Freedom;
Tripp, Twixt Cup and Lip;
Wambugu, Why Africa Needs
Agricultural Biotech; Juma and Fang,
Bridging the Genetic Divide
Shamiah Grant
4 Dec Ellstrand, When Transgenes Wander,
Should We Worry? (pp. 325-330);
Johnson and Hope, GM Crops and
Equivocal Environmental Benefits,
(pp. 331-334); Trewavas, Much Food,
Many Problems (pp. 335-340)

11 Dec FINAL EXAM PERIOD: 2:00PM
5:40PM