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Japanese consumers more concerned by GE livestock than vegetables
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The study also found that the way in which the topic of gene editing is presented to consumers can have an impact on their response.
The study found that consumers were less likely to raise concerns with gene editing when shown pictures of cartoon pigs Credit: Hisashi Urashima
A statistically rigorous survey of Japanese consumers has found that they have more negative opinions about the use of new gene editing techniques on livestock than they do about use of the same technologies on vegetables.
The survey findings were reported in the journal BMC CABI Agriculture and Bioscience at the end of last March.
Credit: Photo by Hisashi Urashima
A statistically rigorous survey of Japanese consumers has found that they have more negative opinions about the use of new gene-editing techniques on livestock than they do about use of the same technologies on vegetables.
The survey findings were reported in the journal
Because humans tend to feel closer to animals than plants, and commonly express feelings regarding animal welfare but not plant welfare, the researchers, led by Naoko Kato-Nitta, a research scientist at Tokyo s Joint Support Center for Data Science Research and Institute of Statistical Mathematics, wanted to see if such moral or taxonomic distinctions would produce any difference in their attitudes towards use of emerging gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9.
We have to move in that direction,” she said. “Because we started using AI in so many different domains of life that have a significant impact on people s lives.”
However, Axente added that, although she has heard arguments for creating an agency that would regulate the use of AI in a similar way to how the US Food and Drug Administration aims to protect public health, she believes that it might be worth focusing on existing institutions.
“Let s see what we can be doing on this part of the pond, and how can we leverage some of the institutions we already have, rather than creating new ones – but they will have to go in that direction, especially for high-risk application [of AI],” she said.