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Influence of Differences Between Western and Eastern Philosophy Thoughts on Ethics of Genetic-Modified Foods and Crops

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Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century

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Ethics judgments on one product are closely related to social culture. Western civilization creates abundant philosophy thoughts and greatly influences modern science development; on the other hand, China and other eastern countries have more than 5,000 years of history and create abundant philosophy thoughts in a different pattern. Genetic-modified (GM) foods and crops are always the controversial products from their birth. What and how affect the judgments of people toward GM foods and crops intrigue interests of many researchers. In this paper, we select three ethical questions of GM foods and crops and intend to compare western philosophy thoughts with eastern philosophy thoughts in four different visions to discuss how these differences influence the three ethical questions.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Room 401, Building 23, No.102, Guonian Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Xingze Wu

  2. School of Management, Hunan University of Science and Technology, TaoYuan Road, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, 411201, China

    Ming Wang

  3. School of Humanities & Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, No.96, JinZhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China

    Shukun Tang & Ang Li

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

    Soraj Hongladarom

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Wu, X., Wang, M., Tang, S., Li, A. (2015). Influence of Differences Between Western and Eastern Philosophy Thoughts on Ethics of Genetic-Modified Foods and Crops. In: Hongladarom, S. (eds) Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-417-7_26

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