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Agriculture, food science and environment: Codes of ethics

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Agriculture, food science and environment: Recent research

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  • Bonne, Karijn; & Verbeke, Wim. “Religious values informing halal meat production and the control and delivery of halal credence quality.” Agriculture & Human Values. 25.1 (2008): 35-47.
  • Chryssavgis, John. “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Insights Into an Orthodox Christian Worldview.” International Journal of Environmental Studies. 64, no. 1 (2007): 9-18.
  • Peterson, Anna L. “Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic.” Environmental Ethics. 28, no. 4 (2006): 375-93.
  • Sagoff, Mark. “On the Compatibility of a Conservation Ethic with Biological Science.” Conservation Biology. 21, no. 2 (2007): 337-345.
  • Stanworth, Hilary. “Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Cast for the Ideas of Richard Sennett.” Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion. 10, no. 3 (2006): 295-325.

Agriculture, food science and environment: Articles

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  • “Are Scientists Playing God? It Depends on Your Religion” by John Tierney. The New York Times, Nov. 20, 2007.
  • “Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming” by Neela Banerjee. The New York Times. Oct. 16, 2006.
  • “Cultural perspectives on agriculture” by Petrus Simons. The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice, 17:1 (2009): 25-31.
  • “Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Insights Into an Orthodox Christian Worldview” by John Chryssavgis. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 64, no. 1 (2007): 9-18.
  • “Environmental Conference for Imams Challenges Israeli Muslims to Go Green.” Mideast Youth, Aug. 19, 2008.
  • “Faithful Have New Food for Thought; Believers Carry Over Their Values as They Remodel Their Diets” by G. Jeffrey Macdonald. The Washington Post, Sept. 6, 2008.
  • “Framing the Issue: Religion, Secular Ethics and the Case of Animal Rights Mobilization” by Marie Mika. 85, no. 2 (2006): 915-41.
  • “Going green for Lent: Many use period of penance to aid environment” by Beth Daley. The Boston Globe, March 3, 2008.
  • “How Confucianism could curb global warming” by James Miller. The Christian Science Monitor, June 26, 2009.
  • “Mennonite Farmer Sues Claiming Animal ID System Infringes His Religious Beliefs” by Howard Friedman. Religion Clause, June 22, 2007.
  • “On the Compatibility of a Conservation Ethic with Biological Science” by Mark Sagoff. Conservation Biology. 21, no. 2 (2007): 337-345.
  • “People of the Corn: Teachings in Hopi Traditional Agriculture, Spirituality, and Sustainability: by Dennis Wall and Virgil Masayesva. University of Nebraska Press: American Indian Quarterly. v28 n3-4 p435-453 Sum-Fall 2004.
  • “Protestantism, Anxiety and Orientations to the Environment: Sweden as a Test Case for the Ideas of Richard Sennett” by Hilary Stanworth. Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion. 10, no. 3 (2006): 295-325.
  • “Public Concern with Farm-Animal Welfare: Religion, Politics, and Human Disadvantage in the Food Sector” by Danielle R. Deemer and Linda M. Lobao. Rural Sociology (2011).
  • “Spirituality in Agriculture,” paper presented at The Concord School of Philosophy, Concord, MA, Oct. 8, 2005
  • Sustainable Agriculture, The Link Between Agriculture and Spirituality.
  • “Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic” by Anna L. Peterson. Environmental Ethics. 28, no. 4 (2006): 375-93.

Agriculture, food science and environment: Books

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  • Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities. Donald K. Swearer (editor). Center for the Study of World Religions, 2009.
  • Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Jordan D. Rosenblum. Cambridge, 2011.
  • Food, Farming, and Faith (SUNY Series on Religion and the Environment). Gary W. Fick. State University of New York Press, 2008.
  • Foreigners and their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Law. David M. Freidenreich. University of California Press, Aug. 13, 2011.
  • Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (Culture of the Land). A. Whitney Sandford. The University Press of Kentucky, Dec. 30, 2011.
  • Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion. Lord Northbourne World Wisdom, edition 2008.
  • Rebirth of the Sacred: Science, Religion and the New Environmental Ethos. Robert Nadeau. Oxford University Press US, Nov. 2, 2012.
  • Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia. David Gosling. Taylor & Francis, 2002.
  • Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Ellen F. Davis. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice. Cathy C. Campbell. Liturgical Press, 2003.
  • 10 Reasons Christians Should Care About What They Eat. Myrtis Smith. Kindle Edition, June 12, 2012.
  • The Oxford handbook of religion and ecology. Roger S. Gottlieb. Oxford University Press US, 2006.
  • This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. Roger Gottlieb. Routledge, 2003.
  • Weaving the Cosmos: Science, Religion and Ecology. C. Clarke. Earth Books, 2010.

Agriculture, food science and environment: More links

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Agriculture, food science and environment: Case studies

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  • “Harnessing social capital for agribusiness: Tse-Xin’s organic food accreditation in Taiwan” by S. Wei, C. C. Shih, F.H. Wei. Acta Horticulturae, ISHS. 699 (2006): 487-94.
  • “Impacts of Religion on Environmental Worldviews: The Teton Valley Case” by M. Nils Peterson & Jianguo Liu. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal. 21.8 (2008): 704-18.
  • “Vegetation change, goats, and religion: A 2,000-year history of land use in southern Morocco” by Helen V. McGregor, Lydie Dupont, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Holger Kuhlmann. Quaternary Science Reviews. 28.15-16 (2009): 1434-1448.