The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

In order to ensure continued supply to ever-growing population, especially in developing and least developed countries, enough production of genetically modified agricultural crops are sine qua non. It is for this reason that agricultural biotechnology has been supplied priority and is getting all k...

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Main Author:	Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	KBP Islamic Law
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spelling	iium-426022015-05-20T02:07:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/ The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Ansari, Abdul Haseeb KBP Islamic Law In order to ensure continued supply to ever-growing population, especially in developing and least developed countries, enough production of genetically modified agricultural crops are sine qua non. It is for this reason that agricultural biotechnology has been supplied priority and is getting all kinds of support form governments. But almost all GM foods have their origin in western countries, especially from a multinational company by the name of Monsanto of the United States. These countries are marking their GM products both at national and international levels. Although Islam requires for all edibles to be permissible (halal) and good for human consumption (tayyib), which has been accentuated in form of the precautionary principle – which has been enshrined in several international and national legal instruments, which has to be observed by producing and importing countries and which has to be environmentally friendly – but producing countries do not ensure the safety of biotech food. The precautionary principle has further been strengthened by various Shari‘ah principles. This paper demonstrates the Islamic perspective of the precautionary principle and argues for its internalization and practice in international trades in GMOs and GM food. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/2/Intl_Law_Congress-Jan._2015.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/5/42602.pdf Ansari, Abdul Haseeb (2015) The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In: World Congress on International Law, 9th-11th January 2015, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi and India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. (Unpublished) http://www.isil-aca.org/download/2014/10-12-14_tentative_programme.pdf
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spellingShingle	KBP Islamic Law Ansari, Abdul Haseeb The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
description	In order to ensure continued supply to ever-growing population, especially in developing and least developed countries, enough production of genetically modified agricultural crops are sine qua non. It is for this reason that agricultural biotechnology has been supplied priority and is getting all kinds of support form governments. But almost all GM foods have their origin in western countries, especially from a multinational company by the name of Monsanto of the United States. These countries are marking their GM products both at national and international levels. Although Islam requires for all edibles to be permissible (halal) and good for human consumption (tayyib), which has been accentuated in form of the precautionary principle – which has been enshrined in several international and national legal instruments, which has to be observed by producing and importing countries and which has to be environmentally friendly – but producing countries do not ensure the safety of biotech food. The precautionary principle has further been strengthened by various Shari‘ah principles. This paper demonstrates the Islamic perspective of the precautionary principle and argues for its internalization and practice in international trades in GMOs and GM food.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
author_facet	Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
author_sort	Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
title	The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
title_short	The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
title_full	The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
title_fullStr	The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
title_full_unstemmed	The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
title_sort	applicability of islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in genetically modified organisms (gmos)
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/2/Intl_Law_Congress-Jan._2015.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/42602/5/42602.pdf
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The applicability of Islamic law on the precautionary principle in international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

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