Food for thought : Catholic insights into the modified food debate
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog4109
- Author
- Perry, John F. (John Frederick), 1946-
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- TP 248.65 F6 P4 2002
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Publisher
- Novalis
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- 152 p. ; 21 x 13.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "[By] John Perry SJ".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "The public debate about genetically modified foods and the use of growth hormones in cattle is becoming more intense, more exaggerated, more divisive and potentially more extreme ... the issues are far more complex than the good/bad and right/wrong scenarios that most attention-grabbing headlines and street demonstrations seem to suggest. Perry traces the evolution of the debate about biotechnology and food production, outlining the possibilities that technology now offers, and adds the perspective of the wisdom of Catholic social teaching. He points out how centuries of tradition of Catholic thinking can be applied to the rapidly changing circumstances of new developments in genetic science, and shows how the eucharistic theology of transubstantiation casts a surprisingly clear light on our understanding of genetic modification". -- back cover.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Foreword / James Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg, Chairman, Social Affairs Commission, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops -- Introduction -- The "Social Mortgage" of Technology: Barbed Wire as a Case Study -- Intellectual Property Rights in Technology -- Risks of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) -- Transgenic Modification and the Eucharist -- Conclusion -- Notes.
- Author is "a Jesuit and ethicist who teaches religious studies at St. Paul's College at the University of Manitoba". -- back cover.
- Added Entry
- Weisgerber, V. James, 1938-
- Subjects
- Genetic engineering - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects
- Genetically modified foods - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Genetically modified foods - Moral and ethical aspects
- Biotechnology - Government policy - Canada
- Biotechnology - Moral and ethical aspects
- Biotechnology - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Patents - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Ecology - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Plants, Protection of
- Agricultural biotechnology - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
- Lord's Supper - Catholic Church
- Transubstantiation - Catholic Church
- ISBN
- 2-89507-241-8
- Call Number
- TP 248.65 F6 P4 2002
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries