Ethical perception of golden rice in Malaysia
Golden rice was developed by the insertion of carrot gene into rice to solve vitamin A deficiency problem. Past studies have shown that consumer acceptance of genetically modified (GM) food is driven by many factors, of which moral aspects was found to be an important predictor or sometimes referr...
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Environmental Management Society, Malaysia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2361/1/MJEM_2010_2__6_Latifah__F_.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2361/ http://www.ems-malaysia.org/mjem/index.html |
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| Summary: | Golden rice was developed by the insertion of carrot gene into rice to solve vitamin A deficiency
problem. Past studies have shown that consumer acceptance of genetically modified (GM) food is driven
by many factors, of which moral aspects was found to be an important predictor or sometimes referred to
as ‘a veto’ of support. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Malaysian public in the Klang
Valley region perceive the ethical aspects of golden rice. A set of questionnaire comprising of the ethical
aspects of golden rice was distributed and completed by 208 Muslims residing in the Klang Valley area.
Results of factor analysis showed that there are four components or dimensions of ethical aspects of
golden rice. The dimensions are familiarity, perceived risks, denying benefits (if not carried out) and
ethical acceptance. Cronbach alpha values for the all dimensions were good: familiarity (α=0.82),
denying benefits (α=0.77), perceived risks (α=0.78) and ethical acceptance (α=0.84). Results from the
survey has shown that majority of the respondents perceived the ethical aspects of golden rice as
moderate except for the professionals who surprisingly claimed to have only low familiarity with golden
rice while the clerical workers and the un-employed on the other hand, perceived high benefits and were
highly accepting of the ethical aspects of golden rice |
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