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LWI- "Global Economic System Hazardous for the Common Good"
Dear Ethics of Eating Colleagues new (Region 7!) and "old" (past events),
Another hat I wear is as a member of the Lutheran World Federation (www.lutheranworld.org) international council. Today, I got an article across my news feed from them lauding, "Global Economic System Hazardous for the Common Good."
Take a look. (http://www.lutheranworld.org/lwf/index.php/global-economic-system-hazardous.html)
What do you think? Here are two questions related to the article:
1. "He urged churches to pay more attention to the systematic study of economics by suggesting that economics should be added to the curriculum of theological colleges and seminaries alongside philosophy, moral theology and ethics." Do you think economics should be added? If so, how?
2. "The current, dominant systems of consumption, production and distribution were geared towards the private accumulation of wealth and were founded in greed, she noted.
The challenge, she added, was to develop a ‘greed line’ or structural greed indicators to pursue the fullness of life for all." What would you include in a list of structural greed indicators?
For additional reading on "greed," check out this public statement from the Eleventh LWF Assembly this past summer (2010).
"“DAILY BREAD” INSTEAD OF GREED: AN LWF CALL FOR ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE JUSTICE"
What do you think?
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Ethics of Eating reading/viewing recommendations? 3 Replies
What books, articles, or movies did you find helpful in learning more about how our eating patterns impact those who are suffering from hunger and poverty? Here are some ideas to start the…Continue
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Started by Erin Cummisford. Last reply by Erin Cummisford Sep 19, 2011.
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Comment by Mark on April 16, 2012 at 12:23pm -
The Meatrix video and followups are at themeatrix.com . Thiese are short spoofs of the Matrix films with the theme of Family vs Factory farming. They are fun with a nice set of additional resources. (I found it linked to the Equal Exchange Fair Trade web site also an outstanding resource.)
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Comment by Erin Cummisford on January 3, 2012 at 1:28pm -
Hello! I thought you might find this NY Times article interesting. Hope everyone had a merry Christmas!
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Comment by Lena Warren on October 21, 2011 at 2:05pm -
Mary, thanks for the clarification! I thought it a little misleading.
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Comment by Abby Triebel on October 21, 2011 at 1:33pm
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Thanks for adding the link Mary!
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Comment by Mary Minette on October 21, 2011 at 12:55pm -
The piece you linked is, I think, sort of misleading--what's going on is all budget-related and will impact the shape of the next farm bill, but nothing I've heard indicates that they're actually planning to push through the policy legislation that quickly (or even very soon). The R and D leaders of both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees sent a joint letter to the budget supercommittee early this week that made recommendations for what they should cut and what they should protect. If the supercommittee follows their recommendations (and they aren't obligated to, but I imagine it carries some weight that the recommendations are fully bipartisan) it will definitely dictate some of what they do in the next farm bill because it dictates which programs get funded.
If you're interested in seeing their recommended cuts (and they recommended some interesting things), here's a link to the letter:http://agriculture.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1471
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Comment by Lena Warren on October 21, 2011 at 11:03am
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So, I'm curious: What is up with this? Is it true that they are trying to push a new food/farm bill through in two weeks??
http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/what-food-and-farm-bill-over...
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Comment by Dustin G. Wright on October 18, 2011 at 12:16pm -
Here's a link to the blogpost I wrote about Ethics of Eating: http://bit.ly/pTeXw1 Would love some feedback. Thanks friends!
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Comment by Mary Minette on October 13, 2011 at 12:58pm
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Here's an article on some new findings on "no till" practices from the Rodale Farm Systems Trial (for those of you who were at the region 7 event two weeks ago!):
http://www.grist.org/industrial-agriculture/2011-10-11-to-till-or-n...
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Comment by Mary Minette on October 4, 2011 at 12:21pm
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I just found this cool chart on the Washington Post website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-we-eat-in-...
It's a color chart of everything the average American eats in a year--some of it's pretty surprising!
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Comment by Mark on September 20, 2011 at 2:18pm
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Food Dialogues might be an intersting website to follow for those interested in the Ethics of Eating. It is is sponsored by the US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance and is encouraging agriculture producers to participate in hosted web forums that deal with a wide variety of ethical issues in providing the US and the world with food.
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