Beside the well documented abuses to the environment and natives, brought on by greed and the desire to acquire Oud (Agarwood), I was thinking about the recent Agarwood cultivation efforts in those regions. While at first glance those efforts seem to have the right intentions of lifting the pressure from the remaining Argarwood at wild, I was thinking in particular about the ethics of the practice of inoculating healthy trees (in effect making them sick ) in order to start forming the Agarwood. is this practice akin to force feeding ducks to make Foei gras or inserting foreign objects to make cultured Pearls?
We cut trees to build and for sustenance and infections happens in natural but is there an ethical question mark when human try (for commercial benefit) to imitate a process that happens (apparently haphazardly) in nature and that result in the death of living trees for the sake of something...I don't want to say trivial but let's say not for sustenance? Looking for feed back from different view points and backgrounds.
We cut trees to build and for sustenance and infections happens in natural but is there an ethical question mark when human try (for commercial benefit) to imitate a process that happens (apparently haphazardly) in nature and that result in the death of living trees for the sake of something...I don't want to say trivial but let's say not for sustenance? Looking for feed back from different view points and backgrounds.