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By Jason Fowler on 07/08/2011
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…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Videos | Tagged agriculture, culture, environment, film, food, foodie films, Joel Salatin, local food, local food movement, movie, Sustainable Agriculture, Virginia |
By Jason Fowler on 07/03/2011
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…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, christian faith, faith and food, film, foodie films, industrial agriculture, Joel Salatin, local food, local food movement, Media, movie, rethinking agriculture, Whole-life Christian faith, Will Allen |
By Jason Fowler on 02/10/2011
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…
Posted in Events, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, Creation Care, ecology, environment, event, farming, food politics, Joel Salatin, Lynchburg, Lynchburg College, Sustainable Agriculture, Virginia |
By John Pattison on 01/13/2011
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…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian living, chickens, christian faith, farming, food, food and faith, food ethics, Gene Logsdon, Joel Salatin, Virginia, vocation, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 10/22/2010
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…
Posted in Audio, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, audio, Christian agrarian, christian environmentalism, christian ethics, conservative politics, creation, Creation Care, culture, ecology and Christian faith, farming, food system, intellectual agrarian, Joel Salatin, liberal politics, Modernism, Philosophy, polyface farm, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Virginia |
By Jason Fowler on 12/24/2009
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…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry |
By Julie Clawson on 07/10/2009
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.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, Food Inc, Joel Salatin, julie clawson, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture |
By Sara Cardinale on 07/06/2009
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.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Topics | Tagged Joel Salatin, local food, michael pollan, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture, the omnivore's dilemma |
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