Being Good Food Citizens
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Scholars study agricultural ethics and citizens' groups
take on the topic, too. In March 1997, the Soul of
Agriculture project was launched; Paul Thompson, Purdue
University professor and agricultural ethics author, noted
at one early gathering: "We need a production ethic for
agriculture in which we are all producers, one in which we
come to understand ourselves as partners with nature in
reproducing the social and ecological environment where our
children will themselves face the challenges of production
and reproduction."
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We all need to be engaged in this movement, no matter where
the connec tion comes from. We are the producers of our own
fare by acting as decision-makers. No matter how we look at
it, every moment we ingest another morsel, it reflects a
choice we have made. It is either good for the Earth and
all of its beings, or not.
Of course, we are all humans, struggling to squeeze a whole
meal into a fraction of time. We can only do what we can
do. And yet, I know I feel best when I have made a personal
choice that seems right. When I choose antibiotic-free
chicken for pasta, or when I see my son chomping down on an
organically grown apple, I feel good. When we run out of
milk and have the genetically engineered version from the
local gas station's quick-market, I cringe when the
children fill their cereal bowls. I just don't feel good
about it.
We can each do our part by being a good food citizen: by
caring about what happens to the source from which our food
comes and by choosing food that has been raised with
fairness to all people and sentient beings.
Excerpted from The Eco-foods Guide by Cynthia Barstow,
item no. 1695 on MOTHER'S Bookshelf [to order call (866)
803-7096]. Also available from New Society Publishers
[(800) 567-6772; www.newsociety.com ].
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