The Role of Transgenics in Overcoming the Water Crisis; Necessary Criminalization In Support of Food Security

Water is the cause of appearance, persistence and efficiency. Insecurity arising from the lack of sustainable access to water resources for citizens may disturb stability and security and challenge the legitimacy of the political system. Preventing water insecurity in hydropolitical relationships requires legal protection of water against water crimes and infractions.

This article is theoretical and uses data from books, articles and relevant laws and regulations to critically analyze legal protection of water and biosafety laws in a qualitative and non-statistical research method. Ethical Considerations: In order to organize this research, while observing the authenticity of the texts, honesty and fidelity have been observed.

Criminal protection, through coercive prevention and determining punishments for water crimes, is one of the deterrents to the escalation of the agricultural crisis in Iran; A crisis that increases the need to import agricultural and food products with the decline of water resources and poor water management. As a result, the growth of imports of unsafe transgenics, leading to a preference for food security over the right to "healthy" food, is causing other crises. Today, new food and ecosystem technologies have such a moral value that adequate and accurate criminal protection is necessary. The weakness of domestic laws and legal procedures both in protecting water and in protecting the rights of consumers of GMOs, requires criminalization aimed at protecting food security in the increasing need for transgenics in the water crisis.

This article critiques some of the existing rules and regulations on criminal protection of water and biosafety in the consumption of transgenic food, providing a framework for criminalizing criminal behavior against the food supply chain with absolute responsibility - or with the presumption of criminal responsibility. Criticizing the articles of criminal and non-criminal laws related to GMOs and crimes against water, along with presenting draft articles to be added to the Bill on Punitive Punishments, in order to hold the government and private legal entities responsible for the implementation and monitoring of food safety laws, in compliance with the "principle The minimal and limited intervention of punishment as a last resort" is the target of this article; Therefore, limiting severe punishments to bioterrorist and organized types of crimes against food security provides a variety of legal responses that are appropriate to the nature and severity of the wide range of these crimes.