CHAPTER 3. Divine Wisdom or Altering Creation? A Torah Perspective on GMOs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. SECTION 1: Kashrut Dynamics
5. CHAPTER 1. On the Ethics and Politics of Kosher Food Supervision 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Are You Really Eating Kosher? On Camouflage, Hypocrisy, and Hiding Behind the Kashrut Laws 10
7. CHAPTER 3. Milk and Meat 14
8. SECTION 2. Bridging Kashrut with Ethical & Spiritual Concerns
9. CHAPTER 1. The Moral Underpinnings of Kashrut Rabbi 18
10. CHAPTER 2. Eating Our Way from Holiness to Justice 27
11. CHAPTER 3. Increasing Holiness in Life 33
12. SECTION 3. Spirituality of Eating
13. CHAPTER 1. Eating as a Sacrament– The Eating Table and the Coffin 43
14. CHAPTER 2. Food for Thought 49
15. CHAPTER 3. Holy Eating in Jewish Thought and Practice 66
16. CHAPTER 4. Too Much of Everything is Just Enough 78
17. SECTION 4. Health & Consumption
18. CHAPTER 1. Towards a Jewish Nutrition Ethic 87
19. CHAPTER 2. Why Are We So Hungry? Our Betrayal of Eating, Being Satisfied and Blessing and The Way Back 119
20. CHAPTER 3. Your Grains, Your Grape Juice, and Your Oil 126
21. SECTION 5. Worker Rights, Equality, & Hunger
22. CHAPTER 1. The Divine Image 134
23. CHAPTER 2. Judaism and The Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South 154
24. CHAPTER 3 Let Them Have a Little Bread 167
25. SECTION 6. Animal Welfare
26. CHAPTER 1. םייח ילעב רעצ יניינעב הבושת 171
27. CHAPTER 2. Animal Suffering and the Rhetoric of Values and Halakhah 182
28. CHAPTER 3. The Commandments Were Only Given for the Purpose of Refining People 209
29. CHAPTER 4. The Case for Limiting Meat Consumption to Shabbat, Holidays, and Celebrations 218
30. SECTION 7. Environmentalism, Conservation, and GMOs
31. CHAPTER 1. Ethical Eating and the Impact on Our Environment 235
32. CHAPTER 2. Humanity and the Tree of the Field 244
33. CHAPTER 3. Divine Wisdom or Altering Creation? A Torah Perspective on GMOs 252
34. Conclusion 266
35. Index 270