By Mark Van Steenwyk on 01/19/2010
I believe one ethical way forward is to reboot our relationship with our food. Besides growing one’s own food, an ethical consumer can limit their consumption to their local region. Buy local produce during the harvest seasons, learn to can some food, dry some food, freeze other food.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged Christian faith and food, christian locavores, ethics of eating, food and Empire, food ethics, food preservation, globalization, JesusManifesto.com, local food movement, locavore, Mark Van Steenwyk, profood, slowfood, Sustainable Agriculture |
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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