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Title Acceptable genes? : religious traditions and genetically modified foods / edited by Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward. [electronic resource]
Publisher Albany : SUNY Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Genetics and genetically modified organisms / Samuel Abraham -- Ethical perspectives on food biotechnology / Paul B. Thompson -- Does vegetarianism preclude eating GM foods? / Lyne Létourneau -- "When you plow the field, your Torah is with you": genetic modification and GM food in the Jewish tradition(s) / Laurie Zoloth -- Some Christian reflections on GM food / Donald Bruce -- Genetically modified foods and Muslim ethics / Ebrahim Moosa -- A hundred autumns to flourish: Hindu attitudes to genetically modified food / Vasudha Narayanan -- The Karma of genetically modified food: a Buddhist perspective / David R. Loy -- "So that you may have it with no harm": changing attitudes toward food in Late Imperial China / Hsiung Ping-chen -- Born from bears and corn: why indigenous knowledge systems and beliefs matter in the debate on GM foods / Shiri Pasternak, Lorenzo Mazgul, and Nancy J. Turner -- Regulatory and innovation implications of religious and ethical sensitivitIes concerning GM food / Conrad G. Brunk, Nola M. Ries, and Leslie C. Rodgers.
Series SUNY series on religion and the environment
Extent 1 online resource (vi, 272 p. )
Language English
National Library system number 997010714249005171
MARC RECORDS
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