On Golden Rice Event In The Perspective Of Risk Society Theory

Golden rice is a trans-gene product that can produce ?-carotene and it is viewed as a "silver bullet" in solving sights and immune-related problems by researchers and spreaders.But it is not a bio-tec product can avoid reflection for the following reasons:a.The defence of utility for golden rice employs some concepts in the evidence-based public health and is based on centralized narrative pathway in the appreciation of health;b.The actor network in rhetoric activity uses a variety of tactics especially the recruiting of certain bodies to further demonstrate the efficiency of golden rice;c.The bio-politics intention and empire imagination in the marketing process bring harm to the Chinese tested children and ignore several logic levels in golden rice's becoming a real gift for the needy;d.Golden rice is viewed as a gift for the poor but it confronts an ethical dilemma of gene-enhancement and may produce some society influences;e.The science communication of golden rice involves different communicator and manners disorder,what is more,golden rice's being used as a tool to facilitate the market promotion of GMOs makes the communication itself stray from a rational science communication process;f.If golden rice be viewed from a more macroscopic aspect,it represents a reductive way to appreciate the "goodness"of food and embodies the discipline that food empire impose on those local agriculture and peasants.All above make golden rice an empirical identity and the risk of this kind of constructive identity make the risk it encompass is more endogenous,generant and institutional.Accordingly,assessment and coping with the risk require more cognition cost,sociology imagination and a public sphere that can transcend traditional agency to trace risk.The aim of golden rice's being an example is that whether GMOs or techno-science,once touch upon these topics,an assessment of conformity should be preferred instead of dualization such as goodness/badness or acceptance/rejection,in order that scientific achievements can facilitate and promote people's life substantially.