Food
	Land
	and Culture

	Presentation Summary
	Lac Courte Oreilles Casino and Convention Center Oct 3-4, 2002
	Ethical Questions
	Robert Streiffer Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison
	In a society which professes to value liberty, public policy makers must provide justifications when they propose to constrain liberty. Simply put, there is a presumption in favor of liberty. The idea of liberal neutrality, the idea that the government should be neutral on certain issues, adds the further idea that the justifications policy makers provide must show respect for the wide range of fundamental religious and moral values that people reasonably hold. Using as examples some of the objections to genetically engineered crops that have been articulated by some members of the Native American communities, my presentation will explore the question of the extent to which we as a society must respect diverse opinions about genetically engineered crops that are inconsistent with our own, and are perhaps even inconsistent with what our best science tells us.
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