Woodstock Theological Center

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Event	The Ethics of Eating
When	Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 8:00pm
Where	ICC Auditorium
Event details
Details	How can we do ethical and theological reflection on the use of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in food? Must we be experts in biology and agriculture? Must we simply follow our gut reactions to the practice? Are we at the mercy of experts and warring sides in the debate? The Catholicism and Civil Renewal project at Woodstock Theological Center will hold a final event presenting the findings of its Ethics of Eating project. Over the last year, seminars of theologians, lawyers, policy analysts, and historians have met to discuss questions associated with the use of GMOs in agriculture. This conference will feature the findings of each group with a focus on recommendations for the future. The panelists will be: John Farina is the Director of the Woodstock program on Catholicism and Civic Renewal, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University. His current book is The Intelligible Sphere: Pointers Toward a Theory of Religion and Civil Society. Walter E. Grazer is currently Director of the Environmental Justice Program and Policy Advisor for Religious Liberty, Human Rights and European Affairs at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he has worked in several departments for 25 years. In addition to prior work in the Diocese of Richmond, he is co-editor with Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J. of And God Saw That It Was Good: Catholic Theology and the Environment. Andrew Kimbrell is the executive director of the Center for Food Safety and its sister organization, the International Center for Technology Assessment. He is the editor of Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, and author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in your Food. In 1994, the Utne Reader named Kimbrell one of the world's leading visionaries. Jeffrey Marlett teaches religious studies and philosophy at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He is the author of Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America, 1920-1960 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2002). Frank A. Orban, III is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as a former lecturer in comparative law at the University of Virginia Law School. He is a career international legal practitioner, former Senior US diplomat/negotiator and general counsel of major US and foreign corporations.
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Web site	For more information, see http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/programs/ccr/ccr_eating.htm
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