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Conrad G. Brunk, Harold Coward, "Acceptable Genes?: Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods"

Perspectives on genetically modified foods from world religions and indigenous traditions.

Introduction

Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward

A lively debate about genetically modifi ed foods has engaged around the

world since their fi rst introduction onto the markets of many countries in

the last decades of the twentieth century. The debate has been especially

intense in Europe, Japan, and parts of Africa and has led in many instances

to moratoria on the introduction of genetically modifi ed crops into the

agriculture of the societies and strict requirements for the labeling of genetically

modifi ed foods and food ingredients produced in or imported into

the country.

This debate has been uncharacteristically subdued in North America,

where these products were fi rst grown for commercial use and sent to markets

for consumption. Public concern or opposition was limited primarily

to small, often marginalized, environmental or consumer groups but did

not become widespread as in other regions. One reason for this may have

been that government regulators in Canada and the United States approved

these products for the market with no public announcement that they were

doing so and certainly without any prior public consultation, in contrast

to the practice in most European countries. Indeed, most people in North

America have been until very recently completely unaware that much of

the food they are purchasing is from genetically modifi ed corn, canola, soybeans,

and other crops, and that genetically modifi ed or cloned food animals

have been developed and applications for their market approval submitted

to their regulators.

Although public awareness is now more widespread in North America,

levels of concern over GM food are still fairly low on the public’s list of

political priorities. One concern, however, is not low—that of the desire

for labeling of these products in order to give consumers a choice whether

or not to purchase them.

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