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Reviews, discussions, and citations of:

Life Science Ethics, Gary Comstock, ed. (Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, 2002); 2nd ed., forthcoming 2009, Springer.

Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000).

"Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods," SCOPE Research Group (U. California-Berkeley, U. Washington, and American, reprinted in Michael Ruse and David Castle, eds., Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology ( Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2002).

"Make Plans on the Hoof," Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 December 2000.

"A Brief for the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification of New Zealand,"8 Nov 2000, Wellington, NZ.

"An Alternative Ethic for Animals," in Livestock, Ethics and Quality of Life , J. Hodges and I. K. Han, eds. (CAB International, 2000).

  • Jules Pretty, Book Review, EEAP News, no. 38, August 2000..

C.S. Prakash, Catherine Ives, and Gary Comstock, "Minutes from the Technology Transfer Meeting, World Food Prize Symposium," Oct 12 and 13, 2000, Des Moines, Iowa

Carrie Bebermeyer, "Biotech food in focus at ethics forum,"12 Mar 2000, Columbia Missourian.

"Theism and Environmental Ethics," in Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 1999).

"Is it unnatural to genetically engineer plants?," Weed Science 46 (1998), pp. 647–651.

"Agricultural Ethics," in Edward Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).

"The Case Against bGH," Agriculture and Human Values (Summer 1988): 36-52.

"Introduction," to John Styles, The Animal Creation: Its Claims on Our Humanity Stated and Enforced (London: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997).

Case study by Gary Varner, "The Vegetarian Meal Plan," The Ag Bioethics Forum 8 (Nov 1996), p. 5.

"Do agriculturalists need a new, an ecocentric, ethic? 1994 Presidential address to the agriculture, food, and human values society, Journal of Agriculture and Human Values (Winter, 1995), pp. 2-16.

"An extensionist environmental ethic," Biodiversity and Conservation 4 (Nov. 1995), pp. 827–37.

Religious Autobiographies (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1995, 2003).

"Pigs and Piety: A Theocentric Perspective on Food Animals," in Charles Pinches and Jay B. McDaniel, eds., Good News for Animals? Christian Approaches to Animal Well-Being ( Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993), pp. 105-125.

"The Truth of Religious Narratives," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 34 (1993): 131-50.

"What Obligations Have Scientists to Transgenic Animals?" in Ethics and Patenting of Transgenic Organisms, published National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 159 Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1992.

"The Moral Irrelevance of Autonomy," Between the Species 8 (1992).

"Genetically Engineered Herbicide Resistance, Part One," Journal of Agricultural Ethics 2 (1989); and "Genetically Engineered Herbicide Resistance, Part Two," Journal of Agricultural Ethics 3 (1990).

"'Everything Depends on the Type of the Concepts that the Interpretation is made to Convey': Max Kadushin Among the Narrative Theologians," Modern Theology 5 (April 1989)

"Is Postmodern Religious Dialogue Possible?" Faith and Philosophy 6/2 (1989).

"Grandma's Backbone, Dougie's Ankles," in Michael Martone, ed., A Place of Sense (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988), pp. 111-132..

"How Not to Attack Animal Rights from an Environmental Perspective," Between the Species 4 (Summer 1988): 177-178.

"Is There a Conspiracy Against Family Farmers?" in Gary Comstock, ed., Is There a Conspiracy Against Family Farmers? Agricultural Economics, Public Policy and Catholic Theology, USF Monographs in Religion and Public Policy Number 5, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 1990.

Editor, Is There A Moral Obligation to Save the Family Farm? (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987).

"Telling the Whole Story? American Narrative Theology After H. Richard Niebuhr," in Peter Freese, ed., Religion and Philosophy in the United States of America, vol. 1. (Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Fule, 1987)."

Two Types of Narrative Theology," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55 (Winter 1987): 687-717.

"Truth or Meaning? Ricoeur versus Frei on Biblical Narrative," The Journal of Religion (1986): 117-140.