Food Labels, Genetic Information, and the Right Not to Know

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (4):323-344 (2014)
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This paper explores the analogy between food label information and genetic information, in order to defend the right not to know judgmental nutritional information, such as the one conveyed by traffic light labels and other, more aggressive, recent proposals. Traffic light labeling judges the nutritional quality of food by means of colored flags on the front pack . It involves a simplification of the link between food quality and health outcomes. Unlike GDAs ,1 it does not present the consumer with neutral nutritional information, but conveys an interpretation of the link between nutritional qualities and ..

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