Acceptable Genes?
Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2009
278 pages
978-1-4384-2896-3 (ISBN)
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Perspectives on genetically modified foods from world religions and indigenous traditions.
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Conrad G. Brunk | Harold Coward
Acceptable Genes?
Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods
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10/2009
State University of New York Press
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Conrad G. Brunk | Harold Coward
Acceptable Genes?
Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods
Book
10/2009
State University of New York Press
€96.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Conrad G. Brunk is Professor of Philosophy and former Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is coauthor (with Lawrence Haworth and Brenda Lee) of Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy and coeditor (with James O. Young) of The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation. Harold Coward is Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. His many books include The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought and Religion and Peacebuilding (coedited with Gordon S. Smith), both also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction
Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward
1. Genetics and Genetically Modified Organisms
Samuel Abraham
2. Ethical Perspectives on Food Biotechnology
Paul B. Thompson
3. Does Vegetarianism Preclude Eating GM Foods?
Lyne Létourneau
4. "When You Plow the Field Your Torah Is with You": Genetic Modification and GM Food in the Jewish Tradition(s)
Laurie Zoloth
5. Some Christian Reflections on GM Food
Donald Bruce
6. Genetically Modified Foods and Muslim Ethics
Ebrahim Moosa
7. A Hundred Autumns to Flourish: Hindu Attitudes to Genetically Modified Food
Vasudha Narayanan
8. The Karma of Genetically Modified Food: A Buddhist Perspective
David R. Loy
9. "So That You May Have It with No Harm": Changing Attitudes toward Food in Late Imperial China
Hsiung Ping-chen
10. Born from Bears and Corn: Why Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Beliefs Matter in the Debate on GM Foods
Shiri Pasternak, Lorenzo Mazgul, Nancy J. Turner
11. Regulatory and Innovation Implications of Religious and Ethical Sensitivities concerning GM Food
Conrad G. Brunk, Nola M. Ries, Leslie C. Rodgers
Contributors
Index
Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward
1. Genetics and Genetically Modified Organisms
Samuel Abraham
2. Ethical Perspectives on Food Biotechnology
Paul B. Thompson
3. Does Vegetarianism Preclude Eating GM Foods?
Lyne Létourneau
4. "When You Plow the Field Your Torah Is with You": Genetic Modification and GM Food in the Jewish Tradition(s)
Laurie Zoloth
5. Some Christian Reflections on GM Food
Donald Bruce
6. Genetically Modified Foods and Muslim Ethics
Ebrahim Moosa
7. A Hundred Autumns to Flourish: Hindu Attitudes to Genetically Modified Food
Vasudha Narayanan
8. The Karma of Genetically Modified Food: A Buddhist Perspective
David R. Loy
9. "So That You May Have It with No Harm": Changing Attitudes toward Food in Late Imperial China
Hsiung Ping-chen
10. Born from Bears and Corn: Why Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Beliefs Matter in the Debate on GM Foods
Shiri Pasternak, Lorenzo Mazgul, Nancy J. Turner
11. Regulatory and Innovation Implications of Religious and Ethical Sensitivities concerning GM Food
Conrad G. Brunk, Nola M. Ries, Leslie C. Rodgers
Contributors
Index
