Should genetic privacy exist in agriculture?

This is uncharted territory. We need research and analysis on how to think of privacy in an agricultural context.

It is conceivable that our personal genomes contain traits that inform on antibiotic resistance or the propensity to spread a plague. Such information would be of great public interest and it would be good to have more thought and debate under our collective belts, should this possibility become reality, writes Marc Saner. Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY MARC SANER

September 26, 2018

OTTAWA—As of last year, Canada has a genetic privacy law. It sets rules for the privacy of our personal genomes and non-discrimination based on genetic information. This law has become necessary because decoding our personal genomes—and those of other people—had...

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