Members of the Eliot Unitarian Chapel have invited me to lead a worship and worship on the subject of our previous engagement with Monsanto.

In 2009, members of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia joined me to met with executives at Monsanto to reflect upon how the field of biotechnology may be informed by the three principles of biomedical ethics: (1) nonmaleficence, do no harm; (2) beneficence, generous acts of doing good; and (3) distributive justice, achieved through the fair, equitable and appropriate distribution of food.

In this context, we invited Monsanto employees to consider adopting the following oath:  "I promise to use my expertise to help and not harm people, animals, and the environment. I promise to practice responsibly the ancient ethic of stewardship and the modern principle of sustainability by affirming distributive justice as a moral obligation to benefit the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part." ~ Drafted by Nathan C. Walker