Jonathan K. Crane - Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet

Professor Jonathan K. Crane, Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet" before an audience at Temple Solel ( in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Few activities are as essential to human flourishing as eating, and fewer still are as ethically fraught. Eating well is particularly confusing. We live amid excess, faced with conflicting recommendations, contradictory scientific studies, and complex moral, medical, and environmental consequences that influence our choices. A new eating strategy is urgently needed, one grounded in ethics, informed by biology, supported by philosophy and theology, and, ultimately, personally achievable. Eating Ethically argues persuasively for more adaptive eating practices. Drawing on religion, medicine, philosophy, cognitive science, art, ethics, and more, Jonathan K. Crane shows how distinguishing among the eater, the eaten, and the act of eating promotes a radical reorientation away from external cues and toward internal ones. This turn is vital for survival, according to classic philosophy on appetite and contemporary studies of satiety, metabolic science as well as metaphysics and religion. By intertwining ancient wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with cutting-edge research, Crane concludes that ethical eating is a means to achieve both personal health and social cohesion. Grounded in science and tradition, Eating Ethically shows us what it truly means to eat well. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP PURCHASE THE BOOK: For more info, please visit: twitter.com/VBMTorah Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.

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This episode was published on Apr 3, 2019.

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