Such a failure to legislate would be a moral hazard of such a scale as to confirm, even to many unionists, that the UK government has indeed become corrupted, and that the referendum was won on a lie.
While infectious and contagious diseases are the most obvious hazard, it is now recognised that the urban environment also has a major part to play in chronic illness.
Backache is an occupational hazard as a milliner.
They do not, however, address the suggested bio-security hazard directly.
As for how safe this makes GM, Baulcombe says: The European roadblock on GM would be appropriate if there were evidence for an intrinsic hazard, but there is not.
"Moral hazard" is one of the key arguments often used against such an approach: allow reckless borrowers a get-out clause, and you give them an incentive to gorge on cheap debt in the good times.
It tells the story of lovable rogue Fletch (Ronnie Barker) – "an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard" – and his attempts to serve his five-year sentence, keep his nose clean ish) and outwit the system at HMP Slade.
The egg is increasingly being exonerated as a health hazard – the latest findings from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in the US say that eating foods high in cholesterol may not significantly affect levels of cholesterol in the blood, and hence it has dropped its restrictions on dietary cholesterol.
Every prostitute who has left the industry describes the horrendous violence she has faced from pimps and punters, an occupational hazard that characterises this kind of work.
In the highly litigious USA, there has been no example for more than 20 years of any harm or legal damages being awarded due to GM crops. The statement that there "is not" any evidence of an intrinsic hazard will be one of the questions I will focus on today.
