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

摘要

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.