“If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.”
–Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, as quoted in Sojourners Magazine, Dec. 09
April 16, 2009 at 7:35 pm (Quotes to Ponder)
Tags: environment
…solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed. –Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
Quotes to Ponder
November 17, 2008 at 3:24 am (Quotes to Ponder)
Tags: diet, food
May all be fed,
May all be healed,
May all be loved.
[from Diet for a New World by John Robbins]
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What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism
November 13, 2008 at 5:28 am (Quotes to Ponder)
Tags: Buddhism, Christianity, food
“In Buddhism, the most important precept of all is to live in awareness, to know what is going on. To know what is going on, not only here, but there. For instance, when you eat a piece of bread, you may choose to be aware that our farmer, in growing the wheat, use chemical poisons a little too much. Eating the bread, we are somehow co-responsible for the destruction of our ecology…When we eat a piece of meat or drink alcohol…we have to use a lot of grain…if only the people in Western countries would reduce the eating of meat and the drinking of alcohol by 50%, that would be enough to change the situation of the world. Only 50% less.”–Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh, poet, teacher, worker for peace nominated by Dr. Martin Luther King for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Being Peace was published in 1987–I guess we Westerners are slow learners.
