American Meat (film trailer)
What I find unique about this film project is they seem to be using it as merely a starting point for action. The film American Meat is apparently connected with a video-based social network called Leave It Better and another sister project Harvest Cloud…
Fresh (the movie): Connecting Churches with the Local Food Movement
FRESH is a brilliant movie for bringing the conversation about our food system into local view. Hosting a local viewing with a question and answer time featuring local food producers from your community is a first step in understanding why these issues matter to a whole-life Christian faith…
Heretic Farmer Joel Salatin To Speak At Lynchburg College Feb 14
In “Everything I Want To Do is Illegal,” Salatin says the single biggest impediment to eating healthier is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices…If you’re in our neck of the woods come hear Joel Salatin speak at Lynchburg College on (this) Monday, February 14…
Worthy of Our Meat
Salatin is representative of how the ethical eating conversation has changed even within American Christianity…When Salatin was an undergraduate…in the seventies, students were warned to avoid “the food cult” of the natural food movement…
Joel Salatin | Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility
Salatin’s sense of urgency serves as a wake up call for Christians to begin embracing a more theologically holistic view of the world and a more sacred view of both eating and farming as environmentally, socially and spiritually transformative acts…
Farming and Faith: Interview With Ragan Sutterfield
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
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Food, Inc. [Movie Review]
I recently headed out to a sold-out showing of the documentary Food, Inc. at Austin’s own Alamo Drafthouse. Generally, getting dinner and drinks along with my movie is my favorite “night out” activity, but in watching a film which critically examines our industrial food system, it was a bit strange.
Joel Salatin: Saying Yes To The Good
What is our food culture as a whole in this country? There are stories of corporate greed, polluted environments, mad cow disease, salmonella outbreaks, genetically modified organisms, and bankrupt farmers by the hour….”it’s not enought to say NO to what we don’t like-we must say YES to the good, ” according to Salatin.
