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LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
Genetically Modified Food (GMF)increase productivity against
negative impact on the environment
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What is Genetic Modified Food ?
The term genetically-modified food or
genetically-modified organism is commonly refer
to crop plants which was created for human or
animal by using biological technique.
It was only a food items that have undergo DNA changethrough some procedure. The process involve combining a
different genes of another organisms which the resulting
organism is called genetically modified or genetically
engineered.
The main purpose of the food being
modified is to enhance desired traits such
as increase or improved nutritional content.
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Ibrahim Syed
Dr Ibrahim b. Syed was born in South India and
he have received his academic education at
University of Mysore. Other than that he have
obtained his doctor of Science degree in 1972 in
Radiological Sciences.
PHILOSOPHER background
Majid Katme
He was born in Lebanon. Dr Katme have receivedhis medical doctorate from Cairo University in
1970. Other than that, he specialized inpsychiatry and has become an important man inUnited Kingdom for rising issues on medicalethics and family issues. Currently he is one ofchairman in the Islamic Medical Association of
the United Kingdom
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Fatima Agha al-Hayani
Fatima is a lecturer and a court
expert on Islamic Jurispudence.
She has the specialty in IslamicFamily Law. Other than that,
she was one of the active
presenter of workshops on
Islam, Islamic Law, Women in
Islam and in the Arab World,the Middle eastern History, and
last but not least regarding to
society and culture of Islam
Cardinal Renato Martino
Cardinal Renato is and Italian
Cardinal Deacon which born on 23Novermber 1932 in Salerno where
he was appoint as a priest in 1957.
He have a doctorate in Canon law
and have mastered a several
languages fluently. At early age, heentered the Vaticans diplomatic
service in 1962 and served at
several places such as Philiphines
and Canada.
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Ibrahim Syed -Opinion - Quranic verse forbidding man from defacing
Gods creation cannot be invoked as a total and
radical ban on genetic engineering.... if carried too far,
it would conflict with many forms of curative surgery
that also entail some change in Gods creation
Majid Katme
-Opinion- quotes copiously from the Quran, there isno need for genetic modification of food crops because
God created everything perfectly and man does not
have any right to manipulate anything that god has
created using His divine wisdom.
PHILOSOPHY
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Cardinal Renato Martino
-Opinion Supports genetic modification
of food as an answer for world starvationand malnutrition and because scientific
progress was part of the divine plan
Fatima Agha al-Hayani
-Opinion she contends that Muslims
must ensure that genetic modification
may remain mercy-driven and
promote righteousness.
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Islamic View on GMF
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Whether a certainfood is halal or not
although there is
already a certainly
part of it but it causedifficulty after the
food is modified.
Muslim concern onthe food purity which
absorb by the body as
it is a need to have a
good health in order
to run our daily life asa muslim.
Complex issues :
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To make easy of
all muslims andnot to tortured
Muslims must connect
scientific knowledge
and ethical behaviorbased on faith
All the thing that beendone must be parallel
with what is right and
what is wrong
Islam view has not prohibited
as long as the development oftechnology is parallel with theprinciple of Islam and not over
rule any of those principle of
life in Islam
ISLAMICPRINCIPLES
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Argument
by Muslims
scholars
Genetically modified food
will violate certain Islamic
principles that people
should help the needywithout being motivated by
profit
Whether the
Genetically
modified food do in
fact prevent harm
All the food is consume by
the body, and as a muslim ifthe food bring and cause
harm to the body it is
Haram and is not a food
that should be consume
If it affect the biodiversity it can
be regarded as harmful
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The Islamic
Jurisprudence
Council and
Islamic Food
and Nutrition
Council of
America take
the position
that theGenetically
modified food
is Halal
There is still
a doubts
among
muslims asthere is no
evidence
saying the
Geneticallymodified
food is
Halal
In Malaysia
there is
Biosafety
Act whichmake label
for
genetically
modified
food
Status of halal:
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Fatima Agha Al-Hayani (PREFERRED)
-Muslims must ensure that genetic modification may remain mercy-driven and promote righteousness.
-As long as the technology do not cause
harm to the people or the environment it
will be regarded as safe and be accepted bythe people
Fatima Agha Al-Hayani parallel with
Islamic principle.
-As a human we should help otherhuman beings.
-All the flaw of the food should be
overcome by doing research as this
food have its own benefit to help
those in need-The aim of modifying the food itself should
be same which is to help those in need asthe food supply is not enough to support
billion of people which increase from time
to time
GROUP OPINION :
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Fatima Agha Al-Hayani
(PREFERRED) cont.
-There is a potential
danger of the Genetic
modified food,
however we have tosee beyond the scope
as it can actually give
benefit to the people
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-The researcher should
play an important role to
search more ways to
overcome or minimizethe risk or problem
relating to the genetic
modified food
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Research by Graham Brookes and Peter Barfoot
- the environmental impact of pesticide and herbicide
use in genetic modified food have been reduced by 15%and 20% respectively
-The genetic
modified foodrequire fewer
pesticides which as a
result it lowers rate
of food poisoning
and can keeps water
sources clean
-Genetic modified
food improved
production whichmean the amount of
land needed for
planting or farming is
less and therefore is
conserve theenvironment from
being explored to
much
-The genetically
modified food or
crops is moreefficient which it
cuts emissions and
save energy used
BEFORE AND AFTER
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I. Unintended Harm To Other Organisms - to create
GM plants that are male sterile (do not produce pollen)
or to modify the GM plant so that the pollen does not
contain the introduced gene.-cross-pollination would not occur, and if harmless
insects such as monarch caterpillars were to eat pollen
from GM plants, the caterpillars would survive.
II. Reduced Effectiveness Of Pesticides
-to create buffer zones around fields of GM crops
III. Gene transfer to non-target species
-Gene transfer to weeds and other crops would notoccur because the wind-blown pollen would not travel
beyond the buffer zone.
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However, we must proceedwith caution to avoidcausing unintended harmto human health and theenvironment as a result of
our enthusiasm for thispowerful technology.
Genetically-modified foods have the
potential to solve many of the world's
hunger and malnutrition problems, and to
help protect and preserve the
environment by increasing yield and
reducing reliance upon chemical
pesticides and herbicides.
Many people feel that
genetic engineering is
the inevitable wave of
the future and that wecannot afford to ignore
a technology that has
such enormous
potential benefits.